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Biologically Variable Respiration as a Stochastic Process in Ventilation – a Stochastic Model Study

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New Frontiers in Respiratory Control

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 669))

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Based on the fractal bronchial tree, we introduced a function of “asynchronous phasic contractions of lobular bronchiole”, which would generate fluctuations in tidal volumes. Stochastic control theory was able to describe a genesis of biological variability in spontaneous respirations using a Schroedinger wave function.

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  1. Respiratory Unit of Internal Medicine, Itami City Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

    Kyongyob Min, Keita Hosoi, Masayuki Degami & Yoshinori Kinoshita

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  1. Kyongyob Min
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  1. Showa University School of Medicine, Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku 1-5-8-5-8, Tokyo, 142-8555, Japan

    Ikuo Homma

  2. Showa University School of Medicine, Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku 1-5-8-5-8, Tokyo, 142-8555, Japan

    Hiroshi Onimaru

  3. Jyuntendo University School of Medicine, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku 2-1-1-1-1, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan

    Yoshinosuke Fukuchi

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Min, K., Hosoi, K., Degami, M., Kinoshita, Y. (2010). Biologically Variable Respiration as a Stochastic Process in Ventilation – a Stochastic Model Study. In: Homma, I., Onimaru, H., Fukuchi, Y. (eds) New Frontiers in Respiratory Control. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 669. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5692-7_11

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