Table 2.

Maximum laryngeal stimulation-evoked respiratory and cardiovascular responses.

Treatment groups	Respiration (breaths/min)		Blood Pressure (mmHg)		Heart Rate (bpm)
	Emax (Mean ± SEM)	p-value	Emax (Mean ± SEM)	p-value	Emax (Mean ± SEM)	p-value
nTS before vehicle/after vehicle (n = 3)	4.0 ± 2.0/2.0 ± 2.0	0.667	43.5 ± 1.57/49.8 ± 3.47	0.324	281.7 ± 6.00/282.3 ± 8.69	0.843
Pa5 before vehicle/after vehicle (n = 4)	9.0 ± 3.87/6.0 ± 3.46	0.181	48.3 ± 7.11/48.6 ± 5.61	0.884	286.5 ± 26.18/302.7 ± 18.10	0.216
nTS before muscimol/after muscimol (n = 4)	10.5 ± 2.87/9.0 ± 1.73	0.391	51.5 ± 4.64/38.3 ± 5.15	0.052	286.7 ± 15.60/277.7 ± 4 0.27	0.751
Pa5 before muscimol/after muscimol (n = 4)	6.0 ± 3.46/25.5 ± 2.87	0.001*	53.5 ± 4.79/50.5 ± 1.93	0.577	316.3 ± 10.65/309.5 ± 8.13	0.111

Baseline (prior to any treatments or stimulation) respiratory rate (breaths/min) = 46.93 ± 1.69; blood pressure (mmHg) = 60.34 ± 2.19; heart rate (bpm) = 301.93 ± 8.06.

^*Significantly different compared to before treatment.