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...Kim Landry-Truchon; Stéphanie Fournier; Nicolas Houde; Jean-Philippe Rousseau; Lucie Jeannotte; Richard Kinkead ABSTRACT Fetal development of the respiratory tract and diaphragm requires strict coordination between genetically controlled signals and mechanical forces produced by the neural network...

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...John D. Altringham; Iain S. Young ABSTRACT Bundles of muscle fibres were isolated from the diaphragm of mouse, rat and rabbit. Mean oscillatory power output was determined during phasic stimulation and imposed sinusoidal length changes. Maximum power output was measured over a range of cycle...