Title :
Adaptive behavior in the respiratory chemoreflex response
Author :
Sidney, Daniel A. ; Poon, Chi-Sang
Author_Institution :
Harvard-MIT Div. of Health Sci. & Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The chemoreflex response is adaptively modified to optimize respiration relative to specific chemical and mechanical constraints. It is shown that there is a difference in the responses under inspiratory resistive loading between CO2 and dead-space breathing. The difference in response suggests the existence of an adaptive behavior of the controller. Chemoreflex controls respiration, but it is not above being modified, or adapting, to different situations to produce more effective breathing
Keywords :
adaptive control; biocontrol; pneumodynamics; CO2; adaptive behavior; chemical constraints; controller; dead-space breathing; effective breathing; inspiratory resistive loading; mechanical constraints; respiration optimization; respiratory chemoreflex response; Chemical technology; Constraint optimization; Costs; Diseases; Load management; Optimal control; Predictive models; Resistors; Testing; Ventilation;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 1991., Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Seventeenth Annual Northeast
Conference_Location :
Hartford, CT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0030-0
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.1991.154583
