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The North Carolina Respiratory Model

A Multipurpose Model for Studying the Control of Breathing

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Bioengineering Approaches to Pulmonary Physiology and Medicine

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Computer-based mathematical models of respiration have been used for some decades to study respiratory control. Such models can mimic both steady state and dynamic behaviors to a wide variety of forcings[1] and have been particularly useful in gaining understanding of some of the chemical and circulatory factors underlying unstable, periodic breathing of the Cheyne-Stokes type[2]–[4].

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Eldridge, F.L. (1996). The North Carolina Respiratory Model. In: Bioengineering Approaches to Pulmonary Physiology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34964-0_2

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