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News Physiol Sci 5: 233-237, 1990;
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News in Physiological Sciences, Vol 5, 233-237, Copyright © 1990 by International Union of Physiological Sciences

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The Act of Breathing

PT Macklem

During the last 30 years, quantification of chest wall motion, partitioning and analysis of pressures displacing chest wall, recognition that the diaphragm is composed of 2 muscles, and realization that rib cage is a 2-compartment system, each exposed to different pressure, has produced new insights into how mammals breathe.




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