Publications by authors named "Kana Takao"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the effectiveness of a new soft palatal augmentation prosthesis (PAP) in improving communication (dysarthria) and swallowing (dysphagia) issues in patients with neurological conditions or post-tongue cancer surgery.
- Researchers will conduct a randomized controlled trial comparing rehabilitation with and without the soft PAP, measuring outcomes like speech intelligibility and swallowing efficiency.
- The findings will contribute to the understanding of pap's role in rehabilitation and will be shared in a peer-reviewed journal and at conferences.
In this study, we found that a certain motor branch of glossopharyngeal (IX) motor nerves stably exhibits not only inspiratory activity but also expiratory activity with pons removal in neonatal rat brainstem-spinal cord preparations in vitro. Because this finding indicates that IX expiratory activity is masked by an inhibitory mechanism operating in the pons, we sought to determine the candidate neurons that exert an inhibitory effect on IX expiratory activity. IX expiratory activity was observed when only the pons was perfused with noradrenaline (NA) or clonidine (alpha2 adrenergic receptor agonist), but not when NA and yohimbine (alpha2 adrenergic receptor antagonist) were perfused together.
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