ArticleJournal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)2020
Sucking versus swallowing coordination, integration, and performance in preterm and term infants.
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- Biomechanical and Cortical Control of Tongue Movements During Chewing and Swallowing.Dysphagia · 2024Review
- Evolution, diversification and function of the maternal-infant dyad in mammalian feeding.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- The Function of the Mammal Extrinsic Tongue Musculature in the Transition from Suckling to Drinking.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Article
- Oropharyngeal capsaicin exposure improves infant feeding performance in an animal model of superior laryngeal nerve damage.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mammalian infants must be able to integrate the acquisition, transport, and swallowing of food to effectively feed. Understanding how these processes are coordinated is critical, as they have differences in neural control and sensitivity to perturbation. Despite this, most studies of infant feeding focus on isolated processes, resulting in a limited understanding of the role of sensorimotor integration in the different processes involved in infant feeding. This is especially problematic in the context of preterm infants, as they are considered to have pathophysiological brain development and often experience feeding difficulties. Here, we use an animal model to study how the different properties of food acquisition, transport, and swallowing differ between term and preterm infants longitudinally through infancy to understand which processes are sensitive to variation in the bolus being swallowed. We found that term infants are better able to acquire milk than preterm infants, and that properties of acquisition are strongly correlated with the size of the bolus being swallowed. In contrast, behaviors occurring during the pharyngeal swallow, such as hyoid and soft palate movements, show little to no correlation with bolus size. These results highlight the pathophysiological nature of the preterm brain and also demonstrate that behaviors occurring during oral transport are much more likely to respond to sensory intervention than those occurring during the "pharyngeal phase."
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