ReviewRespiratory physiology & neurobiology2011
Activities of human genioglossus motor units.
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- Respiratory pathology in the TDP-43 transgenic mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Impact of Limb Phenotype on Tongue Denervation Atrophy, Dysphagia Penetrance, and Survival Time in a Mouse Model of ALS.Dysphagia · 2022Article
- Respiratory dysfunction in a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7.Disease models & mechanisms · 2021Article
- Relationship between the activity of the genioglossus, other peri-pharyngeal muscles and flow mechanics during wakefulness and sleep in patients with OSA and healthy subjects.Respiratory physiology & neurobiology · 2020Article
- Mechanisms of the deep, slow-wave, sleep-related increase of upper airway muscle tone in healthy humans.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2017Article
- Intraspinal microstimulation and diaphragm activation after cervical spinal cord injury.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- The Kölliker-Fuse nucleus: a review of animal studies and the implications for cranial nerve function in humans.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2016Review
- Crossed motor innervation of the base of human tongue.Journal of neurophysiology · 2015Article
- A comprehensive assessment of genioglossus electromyographic activity in healthy adults.Journal of neurophysiology · 2015Article
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- Activation of upper airway muscles during breathing and swallowing.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2014Review
- Respiration-related discharge of hyoglossus muscle motor units in the rat.Journal of neurophysiology · 2014Article
- Adiponectin alleviates genioglossal mitochondrial dysfunction in rats exposed to intermittent hypoxia.PloS one · 2014Article
- Human hypoglossal motor unit activities in exercise.The Journal of physiology · 2013Article
- Differential effects of targeted tongue exercise and treadmill running on aging tongue muscle structure and contractile properties.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2013Article
- Pulmonary C-fiber activation attenuates respiratory-related tongue movements.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2012Article
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Abstract
Upper airway muscles play an important role in regulating airway lumen and in increasing the ability of the pharynx to remain patent in the face of subatmospheric intraluminal pressures produced during inspiration. Due to the considerable technical challenges associated with recording from muscles of the upper airway, much of the experimental work conducted in human subjects has centered on recording respiratory-related activities of the extrinsic tongue protudor muscle, the genioglossus (GG). The GG is one of eight muscles that invest the human tongue (Abd-El-Malek, 1939). All eight muscles are innervated by the hypoglossal nerve (cranial nerve XII) the cell bodies of which are located in the hypoglossal motor nucleus (HMN) of the caudal medulla. Much of the earlier work on the respiratory-related activity of XII motoneurons was based on recordings obtained from single motor axons dissected from the whole XII nerve or from whole muscle GG EMG recordings. Detailed information regarding respiratory-related GG motor unit activities was lacking until as recently as 2006. This paper examines key findings that have emerged from the last decade of work conducted in human subjects. Wherever appropriate, these results are compared with results obtained from in vitro and in vivo studies conducted in non-human mammals. The review is written with the objective of facilitating some discussion and some new thoughts regarding future research directions. The material is framed around four topics: (a) motor unit type, (b) rate coding and recruitment, (c) motor unit activity patterns, and (d) a compartment based view of pharyngeal airway control.
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