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Previous studies by us2–5,7,8 and others9,15 demonstrated that the cervical respiratory neurons are localized in upper cervical segments C1 to C3, near the border of the intermediate gray matter in cats, rats and monkeys. These neurons, which are mostly inspiratory in cats, receive descending inputs from the brainstem, have axons which descend in the cord ipsilaterally and arborize in the lower cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments11,17,19.
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Aoki, M., Fujito, Y., Kosaka, I., Kobayashi, N. (1989). Supraspinal Descending Control of Propriospinal Respiratory Neurons in the Cat. In: Swanson, G.D., Grodins, F.S., Hughson, R.L. (eds) Respiratory Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0529-3_49
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