297 - Respiratory Dysfunction in Neurological Disease and Injury: Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutics

Session Chair(s)

• Irene Solomon

  Stony Brook University

• Savannah Lusk

  Baylor College of Medicine

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

  Novel Therapeutics for Respiratory Neuromuscular Dysfunction
  

  Speaker: David Fuller – University of Florida
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM

  Restoration of tidal volume after spinal cord injury by hyperbaric oxygen therapy requires both pressure and 100% oxygen
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Sunshine – University of Florida
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM

  Basal and Hypoxic Respiratory Behaviors in Aged 6-OHDA-Induced SN Lesion PD Rat Model: Effects of the 5-HT1A Receptor Agonist Buspirone
  

  Presenting Author: Robert Wadolowski – Stony Brook University
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

  Accessory Muscle Support of Breathing in Young Dystrophin-deficient mdx Mice
  

  Presenting Author: Aoife Slyne – University College Cork
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM

  Upper Airway Dysfunction and Discoordination are Reversed by Isometric Tongue Exercise in a Novel Rodent Model of Hypoglossal Motor Neuron Loss
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole Nichols – University of Missouri