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The Effects Of Lesions In The Dorsolateral Pons On The Coordination Of Swallowing And Breathing In Awake Goats, Joshua M. Bonis, S. E. Neumueller, B. D. Marshall, K. L. Krause, B. Qian, Lawrence Pan, M. R. Hodges, Hubert V. Forster
The Effects Of Lesions In The Dorsolateral Pons On The Coordination Of Swallowing And Breathing In Awake Goats, Joshua M. Bonis, S. E. Neumueller, B. D. Marshall, K. L. Krause, B. Qian, Lawrence Pan, M. R. Hodges, Hubert V. Forster
Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications
The purpose of this retrospective study was to gain insight into the contribution of the dorsolateral pons to the coordination of swallowing and breathing in awake goats. In 4 goats, cannulas were chronically implanted bilaterally through the lateral (LPBN) and medial (MPBN) parabrachial nuclei just dorsal to the Kölliker–Fuse nucleus (KFN). After >2 weeks recovery from this surgery, the goats were studied for 5½ h on a control day, and on separate days after receiving 1 and 10 μl injections of ibotenic acid (IA) separated by 1 week. The frequency of swallows did not change during the control and 1 …