Physiology And Pharmacology of Cardio-Respiratory Control

Oxygen Physiology.- Enigmas and insights in the oxybiology of high altitude.- Possible role of the carotid body responsible for hypoxic ventilatory decline in awake humans.- Effects of hypoxia and hypercapnia on cardiac contractility and energetics.- Tissue oxygenation-monitoring using Near Infra Red Spectroscopy.- Central Chemoreception.- Fos immunohistochemistry as a tool to map multisynaptic pathways activated by hypercapnia.- Cerebral venous PCO2 and hypoxic ventilatory decline.- Breathing Disorders in Wakefulness And Sleep.- End-tidal inspiratory activity and asthma.- Sleep disordered breathing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.- Sleep apnea syndrome as extreme condition of the respiratory control system.- Children who forget to breathe: The physiological enigma of the congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.- Artificial Ventilation.- Alternating versus synchronous ventilation of the two lungs.- Opioids and Anesthetics.- (Endogenous) Opioids and the cardiovascular system.- Mechanisms for effects of inhalational anesthetics on control of ventilation.- Opioid-induced analgesia and respiratory depression: Sex differences.- Separate effects of respiratory stimuli and depressants on abdominal muscle action.- Influences of low dose volatile anesthetic agents on ventilatory control in humans: A comparison of the Knill and Leiden studies.- Modeling Studies.- Cardiovascular and pulmonary interactions in pharmacokinetics.- Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling of sevoflurane-induced respiratory depression in the cat.- An empirical model of the dynamic ventilatory response to hypoxia in normal subjects.- Some theoretical consequences of a linear ventilatory response to both hypoxia and hypercapnia.- The Read method to assess ventilatory regulation.