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ArticleNature neuroscience2024

Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping.

Nicholas Edward Bush, Jan-Marino Ramirez

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Outcompeting opioid-induced respiratory depression.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026
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  6. Multimodal Breathing Control: Pontomedullary Mechanisms and Current Perspectives.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  9. A neural manifold view of the brain.Nature neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas Edward BushCenter for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0186-6394
Jan-Marino RamirezCenter for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA. jan.ramirez@seattlechildrens.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5626-3999
Seattle University · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Mechanisms Underlying Sympathetic Activation-dependent Endothelial Cell Activation by Chronic Intermittent HypoxiaP01HL144454 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI PENG, YING-JIE · 2019 to 2023
$12.7M
Unraveling respiratory rhythm generation in the medullary networkR01HL126523 · NHLBI · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Jan M. Ramirez · 2015 to 2026
$8.3M
Unraveling the dynamic mechanisms underlying opioid respiratory depressionR01HL144801 · NHLBI · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Jan M. Ramirez · 2019 to 2026
$5.2M
Neuroglial interactions underlying the generation of the sighR01HL151389 · NHLBI · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI RAMIREZ, JAN M. · 2020 to 2023
$3.2M
Dynamic switching in the brainstem: a spatiotemporal mechanism for the neural control of breathingF32HL159904 · NHLBI · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI BUSH, NICHOLAS EDWARD · 2021 to 2024
$212k
NHLBI NIH HHS F32 HL159904NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL144454NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL126523NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL144801NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL151389
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breathing is vital and must be concurrently robust and flexible. This rhythmic behavior is generated and maintained within a rostrocaudally aligned set of medullary nuclei called the ventral respiratory column (VRC). The rhythmic properties of individual VRC nuclei are well known, yet technical challenges have limited the interrogation of the entire VRC population simultaneously. Here we characterize over 15,000 medullary units using high-density electrophysiology, opto-tagging and histological reconstruction. Population dynamics analysis reveals consistent rotational trajectories through a low-dimensional neural manifold. These rotations are robust and maintained even during opioid-induced respiratory depression. During severe hypoxia-induced gasping, the low-dimensional dynamics of the VRC reconfigure from rotational to all-or-none, ballistic efforts. Thus, latent dynamics provide a unifying lens onto the activities of large, heterogeneous populations of neurons involved in the simple, yet vital, behavior of breathing, and well describe how these populations respond to a variety of perturbations.

Indexed as

Analgesics, OpioidRespiratory InsufficiencyHumansHypoxiaMedulla OblongataRespirationAnalgesics, Opioid

Identifiers

PMID38182835
PMCPMC10849970
OpenAlexW4390616517

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