Breathing Bodies

Carotid bodies and breathing in humans.

The first report to describe the carotid bodies ("ganglion minutem") was a dissertation published in 1743 by Taube,l although initially there was some uncertainty as to whether it was Taube or his professor (Professor Haller who used the term "ganglion exiguum") who was the actual discoverer.* While other investigators continued to report that they had "discovered" these organs (now termed the ...

The Effect of Breathing Exercises on Breathing Pattern of Pregnant Women

Purpose: Physiological changes during pregnancy impose numerous changes on the respiratory system that can affect the health of both mother and fetus. Regarding the importance of the normal breathing in the health of mother and fetus, this study aimed to investigate the effect of breathing exercise on breathing pattern of pregnant women.  Methods: The study population was pregnant women...

Introducing a Case of Blood Breathing Abuse

A 20 years old patient from Pakistan admitted to the hospital with fever chills cough sputum discharge and skin sore on the right wrist. In physical examination: Anemia, butterfuly pigmentation on his face, scaltered rounded pigmentation on the lower limbs enlarged spleen reaching left. iliac fossa enlarged firm liver, moist and dry rales at the base of the lungs was found on physical examinati...

Breathing Easier

Guangyu Zhu, Jia Chen, Jay Liu, Joseph S Brunzelle, Bo Huang, Nancy Wakeham, Simon Terzyan, Xuemei Li, Zihe Rao, Guangpu Li and Xuejun C Zhang* Crystallography Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biol...

Heavy breathing.