Respiratory muscle plasticity

OCCASIONAL REVIEW Respiratory muscle fibres: specialisation and plasticity

Skeletal muscles are composed of fibres of different types, each type being identified by the isoform of myosin heavy chain which is expressed as slow 1, fast 2A, fast 2X, and fast 2B. Slow fibres are resistant to fatigue due to their highly oxidative metabolism whereas 2X and 2B fibres are easily fatiguable and fast 2A fibres exhibit intermediate fatigue resistance. Slow fibres and fast fibres...

Serotonin-dependent respiratory plasticity

Respiratory supercomplexes: plasticity and implications.

The plasticity model of the electron transport chain has slowly begun to replace both the liquid model of free complexes and the solid model of supercomplexes. The plasticity model predicts that respiratory complexes exist and function both as single complexes and as supercomplexes. The advantages of this system is an electron transport train which is able to adapt to changes in its environment...

Plasticity in Respiratory Motor Control Invited Review: Neural network plasticity in respiratory control

Morris, K. F., D. M. Baekey, S. C. Nuding, T. E. Dick, R. Shannon, and B. G. Lindsey. Invited Review: Neural network plasticity in respiratory control. J Appl Physiol 94: 1242–1252, 2003; 10.1152/japplphysiol.00715.2002.—Respiratory network plasticity is a modification in respiratory control that persists longer than the stimuli that evoke it or that changes the behavior produced by the network...

Plasticity in Respiratory Motor Control Invited Review: Developmental plasticity in respiratory control

Carroll, John L. Invited Review: Developmental plasticity in respiratory control. J Appl Physiol 94: 375–389, 2003; 10.1152/japplphysiol. 00809.2002.—Development of the mammalian respiratory control system begins early in gestation and does not achieve mature form until weeks or months after birth. A relatively long gestation and period of postnatal maturation allows for prolonged preand postna...