Pons - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Regulation of trigeminal respiratory motor activity in the brainstem.

30 Oct 2009 The trigeminal motor system participates in the control of respiration as well as suckling and mastication. However, the central mechanism underlying respiratory activity in trigeminal motoneurons is not well-understood. In this study, we aimed to ... Read more...

Pontine respiratory activity involved in inspiratory/expiratory phase transition.

10 Sep 2009 Control of the timing of the inspiratory/expiratory (IE) phase transition is a hallmark of respiratory pattern formation. In principle, sensory feedback from pulmonary stretch receptors (Breuer-Hering reflex, BHR) is seen as the major controller for ... Read more...

Central and peripheral chemoreceptors evoke distinct responses in simultaneously recorded neurons of the raphé-pontomedullary respiratory network.

10 Sep 2009 The brainstem network for generating and modulating the respiratory motor pattern includes neurons of the medullary ventrolateral respiratory column (VRC), dorsolateral pons (PRG) and raphé nuclei. Midline raphé neurons are proposed to be elements ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pons - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Regulation of trigeminal respiratory motor activity in the brainstem. 30 Oct 2009
• Pontine respiratory activity involved in inspiratory/expiratory phase transition. 10 Sep 2009
• Central and peripheral chemoreceptors evoke distinct responses in simultaneously recorded neurons of the raphé-pontomedullary respiratory network. 10 Sep 2009
• Evidence of subthalamic PGO-like waves during REM sleep in humans: a deep brain polysomnographic study. 30 Aug 2009
• Gustatory and homeostatic functions of the rodent parabrachial nucleus. 29 Jun 2009
• Functional organization of the rodent parabrachial nucleus. 29 Jun 2009
• The role of the parabrachial nucleus in taste processing and feeding. 29 Jun 2009
• Information processing in the parabrachial nucleus of the pons. 29 Jun 2009
• Symposium overview: What Happens to the pontine processing? repercussions of interspecies differences in pontine taste representation for tasting and feeding. 29 Jun 2009
• Selective enhancement of rapid eye movement sleep by deep brain stimulation of the human pons. 29 Jun 2009
• Spike transmission delay at the calyx of Held in vivo: rate dependence, phenomenological modeling, and relevance for sound localization. 8 Jun 2009
• SDF1/CXCR4 signalling regulates two distinct processes of precerebellar neuronal migration and its depletion leads to abnormal pontine nuclei formation. 30 May 2009
• Characteristics of rostral solitary tract nucleus neurons with identified afferent connections that project to the parabrachial nucleus in rats. 11 May 2009
• The role of the monkey dorsal pontine nuclei in goal-directed eye and hand movements. 11 May 2009
• Localization of serotoninergic neurons that participate in regulating diaphragm activity in the cat. 7 May 2009
• Multiple forebrain systems converge on motor neurons innervating the thyroarytenoid muscle. 4 May 2009
• Identification of the medial lemniscus in the human brain: combined study of functional MRI and diffusion tensor tractography. 2 May 2009
• Long-term implantation of deep brain stimulation electrodes in the pontine micturition centre of the Göttingen minipig. 28 Apr 2009
• Activity profiles of cholinergic and intermingled GABAergic and putative glutamatergic neurons in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum of urethane-anesthetized rats. 6 Apr 2009
• Wide-band information transmission at the calyx of Held. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Pons'

Definition: The front part of hindbrain that lies between MEDULLA OBLONGATA and the midbrain (MESENCEPHALON) ventral to the CEREBELLUM. It is composed of two parts, the dorsal and the ventral. Pons serves as a relay station for important neural pathways between the cerebellum to the CEREBRUM.

Descriptor UI: D011149

Alternative terms: Pons;

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