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The respiratory pump: past and present understanding
Author(s) -
Devlieger H
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2003.tb00492.x
Subject(s) - medicine , respiratory system , afferent , respiratory physiology , spinal cord , diversity (politics) , neuroscience , intensive care medicine , anatomy , psychiatry , sociology , biology , anthropology
The history of our understanding of the respiratory system has been long and progressive, probably starting with Galenus who did experimental spinal cord sections, and progressed through the poorly known work of Leonardo da Vinci on the structure‐function relation of chest wall components. Conclusion : Despite numerous experiments in the past, the respiratory control system remains complex and poorly integrated because of the diversity of the afferent pathways and of the interacting respiratory centres.