The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscle that is primarily responsible for breathing. Contraction of the diaphragm expands the lungs and draws air into them. The phrenic nerve ...

A COMPLETE ultrastructural analysis of the phrenic nerve at a particular level is of interest in view of recent light and electron microscope observations which suggest that there are extensions of ...

Dengue infection is the most common arboviral disease in the tropics and especially in Sri Lanka, where the season usually peaks in June-July each year. Although the clinical spectrum of the disease ...

In 1937, Dr Huang stimulated the phrenic nerve of the rabbit with electricity to induce respiration. Later Sarnoff conducted the same experiment on a cat, a rabbit, a dog and a monkey. In 1949, Dr ...

DENVER — An implantable pacemaker-like device that controls breathing muscles during sleep by electrical stimulation of a phrenic nerve proved effective in patients with moderate to severe central ...