Genetic Basis for Respiratory Control Disorders

Respiratory control disorders: from genes to patients and back.- Hereditary aspects of respiratory control in health and disease in humans.- Phox2b and the homeostatic brain.- Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome: from patients to gene discovery.- Structural and functional brain abnormalities in Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome.- In vitro studies of PHOX2B gene mutations in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.- Sudden infant death syndrome: study of genes pertinent to cardiorespiratory and autonomic regulation.- The genetic basis for obstructive sleep apnea: what role for variation in respiratory control?.- Apnea and irregular breathing in animal models: a physiogenomic approach.- Genetic determinants of respiratory phenotypes in mice.- Genes and development of respiratory rhythm generation.- Transcription factor control of central respiratory neuron development.- Lessons from mutant newborn mice with respiratory control deficits.- Tentative mouse model for the congenital central hypoventilation syndrome: heterozygous phox2b mutant newborn mice.- Respiratory control abnormalities in necdinnull mice: implications for the pathogenesis of Prader-Willi syndrome.- Possible role of bioaminergic systems in the respiratory disorders of Rett syndrome.- Respiratory plasticity following intermittent hypoxia: a guide for novel therapeutic approaches to ventilatory control disorders?.