Two-oscillator model of ventilatory rhythmogenesis in the frog

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2005

Abstract

Frogs produce two distinct yet highly coordinated ventilatory behaviors, buccal and lung. Lung ventilation occurs in short episodes, interspersed with periods of buccal ventilation. Recent data suggests that two brainstem oscillators are involved in generating these behaviors, one primarily responsible for buccal ventilation, the other for lung. Here we use a modeling approach to demonstrate that the episodic pattern of lung ventilation might be an emergent property of the coupling between the oscillators, and may not require a perturbing input from another, as yet unidentified but previously postulated, neuronal oscillator. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Identifier

18144373125 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Neurocomputing

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.10.071

ISSN

09252312

First Page

751

Last Page

757

Issue

SPEC. ISS.

Volume

65-66

Grant

DMS-0315862

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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