Intermittent Hypoxia Severity in Animal Models of Sleep Apnea

Ramon Farré; Josep M Montserrat; David Gozal; Isaac Almendros; Daniel Navajas

doi:10.3389/fphys.2018.01556

Intermittent Hypoxia Severity in Animal Models of Sleep Apnea

Front Physiol. 2018 Nov 6:9:1556. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01556. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Ramon Farré^{1

2

3}, Josep M Montserrat^{2

3

4}, David Gozal⁵, Isaac Almendros^{1

2

3}, Daniel Navajas^{1

2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Unitat de Biofísica i Bioenginyeria, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
² CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain.
³ Institut Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Sleep Lab, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Department of Child Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, United States.
⁶ Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.

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Keywords: disease model animal; hypoxia/reoxygenation; intermittent hypoxia; obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; oxygen dissociation curve; sleep breathing disorders.