RESPIRATORY RESEARCH:
Researchers in the Department of Physiology at Dartmouth investigate cellular characteristics of central chemoreception, central nervous system circuits involved in respiratory control and control of the upper airway, and effects of developmental age, sleep state and brain lesions upon that control in a variety of species. The relationship of the latter aspects of respiratory control to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a common interest of a large group of investigators within the Department.
Faculty working in the Respiratory area:
Bartlett (also cardiovascular and sleep physiology, and systems neuroscience)
Darnall (also computational biology, systems neuroscience, and sleep physiology)
Daubenspeck (also cardiovascular and sleep physiology, and computational biology)
Leiter (also computational biology, and systems and cell & molecular neuroscience)
Li (also systems neuroscience and sleep physiology)
Manning (also sleep physiology)
Nattie (also cardiovascular and sleep physiology, and systems neuroscience)
Niblock (also systems and cell & molecular neuroscience)
St. John (also systems neuroscience)
Stanton (also cell signaling, and renal physiology)
Swartz (also cardiovascular physiology and systems neuroscience)