spatiotemporal regulation of the cough motor pattern咳嗽的时空调控运动模式.pdf

Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access Spatiotemporal regulation of the cough motor pattern 1 2 1 1 Cheng Wang , Sourish Saha , Melanie J Rose , Paul W Davenport and Donald C Bolser*1 Address: 1Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32610, USA and 2Department of Statistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA Email: Cheng Wang - wangchengnju@; Sourish Saha - sourish.saha@; Melanie J Rose - rosem@; Paul W Davenport - davenportp@; Donald C Bolser* - bolserd@ * Corresponding author Published: 22 December 2009 Received: 3 March 2009 Accepted: 22 December 2009 Cough 2009, 5:12 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-5-12 This article is available from: /content/5/1/12 © 2009 Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The purpose of this study was to identify the spatiotemporal determinants of the cough motor pattern. We speculated that the spatial and temporal characteristics of the cough motor pattern would be regulated separately. Electromyograms (EMG) of abdominal muscles (ABD, rectus