William K. Milsom

Emeritus

We study basic aspects of the control of breathing as well as the cardio-respiratory physiology of animals living in extreme environments

My lab has two main focuses. One group of studies is directed at determining the physiological adaptations that individual species possess that allow them to live in different environments. In particular we study respiratory, cardiovascular, thermoregulatory and metabolic adaptations for life in environments with low / high levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, food and water. We are particularly interested in the neural control of these processes. Another group of studies is directed at determining evolutionary trends in the control of breathing, particularly the role of different chemo and mechano-receptor groups in the control of breathing pattern.

Bill Milsom's Google Scholar profile
Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine is not the major surfactant phospholipid species in all mammals
American Journal of Physiology 289:R1426-R1439
Lang, C.J., A.D. Postle, S. Orgeig, F. Possmayer, W. Bernhard, A.K. Panda, K.D. Jurgens, W.K. Milsom, K. Nag and C.B. Daniels
2005
Effects of two paradigms of intermittent hypoxia on human ventilatory, cardiovascular and cerebral responses to hypoxia
J. Physiol. (London), 567.2:689-699
Foster, G.E., McKenzie, D.C., Milsom, W.K. and A.W. Sheel
2005
Reciprocal modulation of oxygen and carbon dioxide cardiorespiratory chemoreflexes in the tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum)
Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 146:175-194
Reid, S.G., Perry, S.F., Gilmour, K.M., Milsom, W.K. and F.T. Rantin
2005
Respiratory chemosensitivity during wake and sleep in harbour seal pups (Phoca vitulina richardsii)
Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 77: 847-863
Skinner, L. and W.K. Milsom
2005
A comparison of adrenergic stress responses in three tropical teleosts exposed to acute hypoxia
American Journal of Physiology 287:R188-R197
Perry, S.F., S.G. Reid, K.M. Gilmour, C.L. Boijink, J.M. Lopez, W.K. Milsom and F.T. Rantin
2004
Cardiorespiratory reflexes and aquatic surface respiration in the neotropical fish (Colossoma macropomum): acute responses to hypercarbia
J. Comp. Physiol. B. 174: 319-328
Florindo, L.H., S.G. Reid, A. Kalinin, W.K. Milsom and F.T. Rantin
2004
Cardiorespiratory responses to hypercarbia in tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum): chemoreceptor orientation and specificity
J. Exp. Biol. 208:1095-1107
Gilmour, K.M., Milsom, W.K., Rantin, F.T., Reid, S.G. and S.F. Perry
2004
Effect of hypothermia on respiratory rhythm generation in hamster brainstem-spinal cord preparations
Resp. Physiol. Neurobiol. 142:237-250
Zimmer, M.B. and W.K. Milsom
2004
Evolutionary trends in airway CO2/pH chemoreception
Resp. Physiol. Neurobiol. 144: 191-202
Milsom, W.K., A.S. Abe and G.J. Tattersall
2004
Frontiers in comparative respiratory physiology
I: Adaptations in respiratory gas transport. Resp. Physiol. Neurobiol. 144: 109-110
Milsom, W.K., F.L. Powell and G.S. Mitchell
2004