In his review of 1946 Pitts (110) presented a concept of the central nervous control of breathing which accounted for many of the experimental observations made up to that time, and in particular for the phenomenon of maintained inspiration or apneusis seen in vagotomized animals sectioned at the midpontile level (69, 100, 112, 133, 137). According to the hypothesis propounded by Pitts there are anatomically separate inspiratory and expiratory centres in the medulla, located in close spatial relationship one to the other. These centres could be differentially activated by localized electrical stimulation of points in the medulla (112).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115536 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Houseley, Michael. A. |
| Contributors | Robson, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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