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Gordon S. Mitchell is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on various subfields including Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Genetics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably Neuroscience of respiration and sleep, Spinal Cord Injury Research, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, High Altitude and Hypoxia, Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research, and Neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

Frequently published in several academic venues, their publications appear often in The FASEB Journal, Physiology, Experimental Neurology, Journal of Neurophysiology, and Journal of Applied Physiology.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Gordon S. Mitchell are:

  • Silent hypoxaemia in COVID-19 patients, 2020, The Journal of Physiology
  • Therapeutic acute intermittent hypoxia: A translational roadmap for spinal cord injury and neuromuscular disease, 2021, Experimental Neurology
  • Crossing the blood-brain barrier with carbon dots: uptake mechanism and in vivo cargo delivery, 2021, Nanoscale Advances
  • Acute intermittent hypoxia boosts spinal plasticity in humans with tetraplegia, 2020, Experimental Neurology
  • Single-session effects of acute intermittent hypoxia on breathing function after human spinal cord injury, 2021, Experimental Neurology

Gordon S. Mitchell has collaborated frequently with several researchers. The most frequent coauthors include:

  • Alexandria B. Marciante
  • Yasin B. Seven
  • Elisa J. Gonzalez-Rothi
  • Raphael R. Perim
  • Joseph F. Welch

Best Publications

  • Breathing: Rhythmicity, plasticity, chemosensitivity

    Jack L. Feldman;Gordon S. Mitchell;Eugene E. Nattie

  • Time domains of the hypoxic ventilatory response.

    F.L Powell;W.K Milsom;G.S Mitchell

  • BDNF is necessary and sufficient for spinal respiratory plasticity following intermittent hypoxia

    Tracy L Baker-Herman;David D Fuller;Ryan W Bavis;Andrea G Zabka

  • Invited Review: Intermittent hypoxia and respiratory plasticity

    Gordon S. Mitchell;Tracy L. Baker;Steven A. Nanda;David D. Fuller

  • Invited Review: Neuroplasticity in respiratory motor control

    Gordon S. Mitchell;Stephen M. Johnson

  • Therapeutic potential of intermittent hypoxia: a matter of dose.

    Angela Andrea Navarrete-Opazo;Gordon S. Mitchell

  • Hypoxia-induced long-term facilitation of respiratory activity is serotonin dependent

    Karen B. Bach;Gordon S. Mitchell

  • Exercise increases hippocampal neurogenesis to high levels but does not improve spatial learning in mice bred for increased voluntary wheel running.

    Justin S. Rhodes;Henriette van Praag;Susan Jeffrey;Isabelle Girard

  • Phrenic Long-Term Facilitation Requires Spinal Serotonin Receptor Activation and Protein Synthesis

    Tracy. L. Baker-Herman;Gordon S. Mitchell

  • Chronic intermittent hypoxia elicits serotonin-dependent plasticity in the central neural control of breathing.

    Ling L;Fuller Dd;Bach Kb;Kinkead R

  • Episodic but not continuous hypoxia elicits long-term facilitation of phrenic motor output in rats.

    T. L. Baker;G. S. Mitchell

  • Time-dependent phrenic nerve responses to carotid afferent activation: intact vs. decerebellate rats

    F. Hayashi;S. K. Coles;K. B. Bach;G. S. Mitchell

  • Long term facilitation of phrenic motor output.

    D.D Fuller;K.B Bach;T.L Baker;R Kinkead

  • Spinal Synaptic Enhancement with Acute Intermittent Hypoxia Improves Respiratory Function after Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

    Francis J. Golder;Gordon S. Mitchell

  • Selected Contribution: Phrenic long-term facilitation requires 5-HT receptor activation during but not following episodic hypoxia

    D. D. Fuller;A. G. Zabka;T. L. Baker;G. S. Mitchell

  • Exposure to Acute Intermittent Hypoxia Augments Somatic Motor Function in Humans With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

    Randy D. Trumbower;Arun Jayaraman;Arun Jayaraman;Gordon S. Mitchell;William Z. Rymer;William Z. Rymer

  • Repetitive Intermittent Hypoxia Induces Respiratory and Somatic Motor Recovery after Chronic Cervical Spinal Injury

    Mary R. Lovett-Barr;Irawan Satriotomo;Gillian D. Muir;Julia E. R. Wilkerson

  • Daily intermittent hypoxia enhances walking after chronic spinal cord injury: a randomized trial.

    Heather Brant Hayes;Arun Jayaraman;Megan Herrmann;Gordon S. Mitchell

  • Sex steroid hormones and the neural control of breathing.

    Mary Behan;Andrea G. Zabka;Cathy F. Thomas;Gordon S. Mitchell

  • Is there a link between intermittent hypoxia‐induced respiratory plasticity and obstructive sleep apnoea?

    Safraaz Mahamed;Gordon S. Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Fuller
David D. Fuller University of Florida
William Z. Rymer
William Z. Rymer Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Jack L. Feldman
Jack L. Feldman University of California, Los Angeles
Justin S. Rhodes
Justin S. Rhodes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland University of California, Riverside
Gary C. Sieck
Gary C. Sieck Mayo Clinic
Monica A. Perez
Monica A. Perez Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Clive N. Svendsen
Clive N. Svendsen Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
William C. McGaghie
William C. McGaghie Northwestern University
Mikhail A. Lebedev
Mikhail A. Lebedev Moscow State University

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