Monday 8 to Tuesday 9 December 2008
Organised by Professor John Nicholls FRS and Professor Julian Paton
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Session 1
John Nicholls
Introduction
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Lawrence B Cohen
Optical methods for monitoring brain-stem activity associated with respiration
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Jean Champagnat
Rostro-caudal organization of the respiratory rhythm generator
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Kenneth J Muller
Optical analysis of circuitry for respiratory rhythm in isolated brainstem of foetal mice
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Session 2
Andrea Nistri
How do brainstem motoneurons support breathing, chewing, sucking and swallowing?
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Bruce G Lindsey
Chemoreceptor modulation of the raphé-pontomedullary respiratory network
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Mathias Dutschmann
Postnatal maturation of the pontine respiratory groups
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Jaime Eugenin
Changes in central chemoreception induced by prenatal to early postnatal nicotine exposure
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Session 3
Paul Pilowsky
Differential regulation of the central neural cardiorespiratory system by metabotropic neurotransmitters
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Richard Horner
Brainstem control of breathing during sleep
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Jean-Francois Brunet
Breathing with Phox2b
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Sergey Kasparov
Studying the brainstem noradrenergic and serotonergic neurones using viral gene transfer
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Session 4
Jeff Smith
Structural and functional architecture of respiratory networks in the mammalian brainstem
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Diethelm Richter
Serotonin targets inhibitory synapses to induce complex modulation of network functions
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Michael Spyer
Chemosensory pathways in the brainstem controlling cardio-respiratory activity
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Julian Paton
The hypertensive brainstem
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Discussion
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