New Frontiers in Respiratory Control XIth Annual Oxford Conference o
Breathing is performed by the rhythmic contraction of respiratory muscles. It ma- tains homeostasis of the organism by taking in the oxygen necessary to live and work and by controlling the level of CO within the organism. At first glance, breathing 2 see
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Editorial Board: NATHAN BACK, State University of New York at Buffalo IRUN R. COHEN, The Weizmann Institute of Science ABEL LAJTHA, N.S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research JOHN D. LAMBRIS, University of Pennsylvania RODOLFO PAOLETTI, University of Milan
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Editors Ikuo Homma Department of Physiology Showa University School of Medicine 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 142-8555, Japan [email protected]
Hiroshi Onimaru Department of Physiology Showa University School of Medicine 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 142-8555, Japan [email protected]
Yoshinosuke Fukuchi Department of Respiratory Medicine Juntendo University School of Medicine 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8421, Japan [email protected]
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Preface Breathing is performed by the rhythmic contraction of respiratory muscles. It maintains homeostasis of the organism by taking in the oxygen necessary to live and work and by controlling the level of CO2 within the organism. At first glance, breathing seems simple; however, it is produced by a complex system in the brain with various afferents and efferents. The control of breathing is of the utmost importance in sustaining life, and although more than 150 years have passed since research on breathing control was first begun, many unsolved mysteries still remain. Breathing is like watching the tides at a beach that are created by the vast, complex open sea. The first Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing was held 30 years ago in September of 1978 at the University Laboratory of Physiology in Oxford, England. During this first conference, the participants engaged in a hot discussion on the problem of whether breathing rhythm was produced by pacemaker cells or a neural network. This was before the discovery of the
