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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-7-5
pubmed:abstractText
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) face an increased respiratory load and in consequence have an elevated respiratory drive. We used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate associated changes in corticospinal excitability both at rest and during voluntary facilitation at different levels of inspiratory effort. Diaphragm and abdominal motor thresholds were significantly lower in COPD than healthy controls, but the quadriceps response was the same. In patients there was a significant increase in diaphragm response from rest during 20% inspiratory efforts but no further increase with greater efforts. In controls there was a further stepwise increase at 40% and 60% of inspiratory effort. The cortical silent period was significantly shorter in COPD. Using paired stimulation to study intracortical inhibitory and excitatory circuits we found significantly less excitability of intracortical facilitatory circuits in patients at long (>7 ms) interstimulus intervals. These results suggest that there is a ceiling effect in motor control output to the respiratory muscles of patients with COPD.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1569-9048
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
141
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Abdominal Muscles, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Diaphragm, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Electromagnetic Fields, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Electromyography, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Evoked Potentials, Motor, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Inhalation, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Matched-Pair Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Motor Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Muscle, Skeletal, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Neural Inhibition, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Pyramidal Tracts, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Recruitment, Neurophysiological, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Respiratory Function Tests, pubmed-meshheading:15234671-Respiratory Muscles
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Corticospinal control of respiratory muscles in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Respiratory Muscle Laboratory, Royal Brompton Hospital, London SW3 6NP, UK. n.hopkinson@ic.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Controlled Clinical Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't