“…The hypoxic ventilatory response is mainly due to sensory afferent input from peripheral chemoreceptors, but significant contributions are proposed to come from central chemosensitive regions in mammals (Neubauer and Sunderram, 2004; Powell et al, 2009; Angelova et al, 2015; Funk et al, 2015; Gourine and Funk, 2017), such as the pre-Bötzinger Complex (Solomon, 2000; Solomon et al, 2000; Solomon, 2004, 2005; Pena and Ramirez, 2005; Hill et al, 2011), nucleus tractus solitarius (Pascual et al, 2002), and locus coeruleus (Nieber et al, 1995). Central hypoxic chemosensitivity may be due to hypoxia-induced changes in neuronal function ( e.g.…”