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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2013 May 18;189(2):10.1016/j.resp.2013.05.012. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.05.012

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Effects of intermittent spontaneous breathing during controlled MV on diaphragm force – frequency relationship. This figure demonstrates the effects of allowing spontaneous breathing for five minutes out of every six hours on animals receiving controlled MV for 24 hours. The Control animals received no MV. The intermittent spontaneous breathing (ISB) group maintained more diaphragm force than the animals receiving continuous MV, but generated less force than the Control animals. Adapted with permission from Gayan-Ramirez, 2005.