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From: Computational model of human ventilation for electrical stimulation following cervical spinal cord injury

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Diaphragm displacement during tidal breathing (grey lines) and maximal inspiration (black lines). Uninjured curves (solid lines) reproduce published experimental data. When simulating electrical stimulation (reverse recruitment) and fatigue (a 50% reduction in maximal muscle force), tidal breathing results are similar to uninjured simulations due to increased force generated by the larger motor units being recruited first (dashed lines).

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