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Nature Neuroscience 12, 961 - 963 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0809-961

Practice makes perfect, even for breathing

Jack L Feldman1, Kaiwen Kam1 & Wiktor A Janczewski1

  1. The authors are in the Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    e-mail: feldman@ucla.edu


Breathing relies on a respiratory rhythm generator. A study characterizes an early emerging oscillatory group of Phox2b-expressing parafacial cells that entrain and couple with the preBötzinger Complex at the onset of fetal breathing.

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