… We believe that the motor control of muscles that do not demonstrate respiratory related
activity (tonic muscles) likely differs dramatically and therefore these muscles will be considered …

… Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
are two diseases that often coexist within an individual. This coexistence is referred to as the …

… In this study, we tested the hypothesis that respiratory events occurring during sleep may
lead to reversible changes in respiratory control in the daytime. In obstructive sleep apnea …

… Subjects in the present study were specifically selected to have normal lung function and
no ventilatory sleep disorder other than OSAS to control for some of these confounding …

… Perturbations in ventilatory control stability, low arousal threshold, sleep-related decrease in
… all been shown to variously contribute to sleep-disordered breathing. Many new therapies …

… Although obstructive sleep apnea has received much attention … the development of obstructive
sleep apnea syndrome is currently … defects in ventilatory control are part of the syndrome. …

… ventilatory control instability. Through this analysis, we were able to examine two important
components of ventilatory control … blood gas response to change in ventilation (plant gain [PG]…

… To determine how the obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patient's pathophysiological traits …
or increase in respiratory motor outputs, we studied 26 newly diagnosed OSA patients [apnea-…

… disordered breathing in PWS patients also evolves over time from predominantly central
sleep apnea in infants to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in older children. Behavioral difficulties …

… the respiratory control system loop gain. Loop gain is the amount of increase in ventilatory
drive … Instability of ventilatory control in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Am J Respir Crit …