Enhanced peripheral chemoreflex function in conscious rabbits with pacing-induced heart failure.

TL;DR: Substantial evidence shows that patients with OSA have an increased incidence of hypertension compared with individuals without OSA and that OSA is a risk factor for the development of hypertension.

TL;DR: The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of current concepts on sensory transduction and transmission of the hypoxic stimulus at the carotid body with an emphasis on integrating cellular mechanisms with the whole organ responses and highlighting the gaps or discrepancies in knowledge.

TL;DR: The peripheral and central chemoreflexes have powerful effects on sympathetic activity in both health and disease and may contribute importantly to disease pathophysiology, particularly in conditions such as hypertension, obstructive sleep apnoea and heart failure.

TL;DR: Hypersensitivity of the peripheral chemoreceptors independently predicts adverse prognosis in ambulatory patients with CHF, and may be the reason for the previously observed prognostic association of the latter.

TL;DR: Minute volume, frequency, and tidal volume of premature infants measured by the barometric method are within the range of such measurements made by plethysmographic methods.

TL;DR: Pulmonary ventilation was measured by a plethysmographic technique in unanesthetized, unrestrained rats and cats before and several days after they were made anemic or underwent a sham procedure, and the results were negative.

TL;DR: Data indicate that an enhanced input from CB occurs in the rabbit model of pacing-induced CHF and that an impairment of NO production may contribute to this alteration.

TL;DR: A parallel decline in left ventricular contractility with parasympathetic influence and a parallel progression inleft ventricular diastolic dysfunction with sympathoexcitation suggest a close relationship between cardiac dysfunction and autonomic dysregulation during development of heart failure.