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  2. Control of ventilation - Wikipedia

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    The control of ventilation is the physiological mechanisms involved in the control of breathing, which is the movement of air into and out of the lungs. Ventilation facilitates respiration. Respiration refers to the utilization of oxygen and balancing of carbon dioxide by the body as a whole, or by individual cells in cellular respiration. [1]

  3. Ventilation–perfusion coupling - Wikipedia

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    Ventilation–perfusion coupling is the relationship between ventilation and perfusion in the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. [1] Ventilation is the movement of air in and out of the lungs during breathing. [2] Perfusion is the process of pulmonary blood circulation, which reoxygenates blood, allowing it to transport oxygen to body tissues.

  4. Breathing - Wikipedia

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    Real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the human thorax during breathing X-ray video of a female American alligator while breathing. Breathing (spiration [1] or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into and out of the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.

  5. Respiratory center - Wikipedia

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    Ventilation was monitored both before and after lesions to the pneumatic center region and after subsequent bilateral vagotomy. Cats with pontine lesions had a prolonged inhalation duration. [ 12 ] In cats, after anaesthesia and vagotomy, pontine transaction has been described as evoking a long sustained inspiratory discharges interrupted by ...

  6. Ventilation–perfusion mismatch - Wikipedia

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    Ventilation Scan is abnormal but perfusion scan is normal indicating abnormal airway suggesting COPD or asthma. Ventilation Scan is normal but perfusion is abnormal indicating any obstruction to the blood flow (perfusion), may be because of the pulmonary embolism obstructing the flow. Both scans are abnormal. It may be found in pneumonia or COPD.

  7. Ventilation/perfusion ratio - Wikipedia

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    In respiratory physiology, the ventilation/perfusion ratio (V/Q ratio) is a ratio used to assess the efficiency and adequacy of the ventilation-perfusion coupling and thus the matching of two variables: V – ventilation – the air that reaches the alveoli; Q – perfusion – the blood that reaches the alveoli via the capillaries

  8. Respiration (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    Exchange of gases in the lung occurs by ventilation and perfusion. [1] Ventilation refers to the in-and-out movement of air of the lungs and perfusion is the circulation of blood in the pulmonary capillaries. [1] In mammals, physiological respiration involves respiratory cycles of inhaled and exhaled breaths.

  9. Pulmonary stretch receptor - Wikipedia

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    Pulmonary stretch receptors are mechanoreceptors found in the lungs. When the lung expands, the receptors initiate the Hering-Breuer reflex, which reduces the respiratory rate. This signal is transmitted by vagus nerve. Increased firing from the stretch receptors also increases production of pulmonary surfactant.