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Article: Study results from Sleep Disorders Center update understanding of sleep apnea.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 5, 2008
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Fresh data on sleep apnea are presented in the report 'Neuromechanical control of the isolated upper airway of mice.' According to recent research from the United States, "We characterized the passive structural and active neuromuscular control of pharyngeal collapsibility in mice and hypothesized that pharyngeal collapsibility, which is elevated by anatomic loads, is reduced by active neuromuscular responses to airflow obstruction. To address this hypothesis, we examined the dynamic control of upper airway function in the isolated upper airway of anesthetized C57BL/6J mice."
"Pressures were lowered downstream and upstream to the upper airway to induce ...