Oxidative stress in obstructive sleep apnea and intermittent hypoxia–revisited–the bad ugly and good: implications to the heart and brain

L Lavie - Sleep medicine reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), characterized by intermittent hypoxia (IH), is linked with
increased reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) and oxidative …

Therapeutic potential of intermittent hypoxia: a matter of dose

A Navarrete-Opazo, GS Mitchell - American Journal of …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Intermittent hypoxia (IH) has been the subject of considerable research in recent years, and
triggers a bewildering array of both detrimental and beneficial effects in multiple …

Therapeutic acute intermittent hypoxia: A translational roadmap for spinal cord injury and neuromuscular disease

AK Vose, JF Welch, J Nair, EA Dale, EJ Fox… - Experimental …, 2022 - Elsevier
We review progress towards greater mechanistic understanding and clinical translation of a
strategy to improve respiratory and non-respiratory motor function in people with …

Unexpected benefits of intermittent hypoxia: enhanced respiratory and nonrespiratory motor function

EA Dale, F Ben Mabrouk, GS Mitchell - Physiology, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Intermittent hypoxia (IH) is most often thought of for its role in morbidity associated with sleep-
disordered breathing, including central nervous system pathology. However, recent …

Intermittent hypoxia and neurorehabilitation

EJ Gonzalez-Rothi, KZ Lee, EA Dale… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
In recent years, it has become clear that brief, repeated presentations of hypoxia [ie, acute
intermittent hypoxia (AIH)] can boost the efficacy of more traditional therapeutic strategies in …

Intermittent hypoxia: a low-risk research tool with therapeutic value in humans

JH Mateika, M El-Chami… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Intermittent hypoxia has generally been perceived as a high-risk stimulus, particularly in the
field of sleep medicine, because it is thought to initiate detrimental cardiovascular …

Control of breathing

JA Dempsey, JF Welch - Seminars in respiratory and critical …, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
Substantial advances have been made recently into the discovery of fundamental
mechanisms underlying the neural control of breathing and even some inroads into …

Acute intermittent hypoxia enhances corticospinal synaptic plasticity in humans

L Christiansen, MA Urbin, GS Mitchell, MA Perez - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) enhances voluntary motor output in humans with central
nervous system damage. The neural mechanisms contributing to these beneficial effects are …

Respiratory neuroplasticity: Mechanisms and translational implications of phrenic motor plasticity

GS Mitchell, TL Baker - Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
Widespread appreciation that neuroplasticity is an essential feature of the neural system
controlling breathing has emerged only in recent years. In this chapter, we focus on …

Mild inflammation impairs acute intermittent hypoxia-induced phrenic long-term facilitation by a spinal adenosine-dependent mechanism

AB Marciante, GS Mitchell - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Inflammation undermines neuroplasticity, including serotonin-dependent phrenic long-term
facilitation (pLTF) following moderate acute intermittent hypoxia (mAIH: 3, 5-min episodes …