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Overview

Jean Champagnat is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on subfields including Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Physiology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, notably the neuroscience of respiration and sleep, neonatal respiratory health research, and obstructive sleep apnea research.

Recent publications by Jean Champagnat include the following paper:

  • Mafa-dependent GABAergic activity promotes mouse neonatal apneas, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include:

  • Laure Lecoin
  • Bowen Dempsey
  • Alexandra Garancher
  • Steeve Bourane
  • Pierre-Louis Ruffault

Jean Champagnat has published in venues such as Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Central control of breathing in mammals: neuronal circuitry, membrane properties, and neurotransmitters

    Armand L. Bianchi;Monique Denavit-Saubie;Jean Champagnat

  • Mice lacking brain-derived neurotrophic factor exhibit visceral sensory neuron losses distinct from mice lacking NT4 and display a severe developmental deficit in control of breathing.

    Jeffery T. Erickson;Joanne C. Conover;Veronique Borday;Jean Champagnat

  • Effects of opiates and methionine-enkephalin on pontine and bulbar respiratory neurones of the cat

    M. Denavit-Saubié;M. Denavit-Saubié;J. Champagnat;J. Champagnat;W. Zieglgänsberger;W. Zieglgänsberger

  • Hindbrain interneurons and axon guidance signaling critical for breathing

    Julien Bouvier;Muriel Thoby-Brisson;Nicolas Renier;Nicolas Renier;Nicolas Renier;Véronique Dubreuil

  • Reorganization of pontine rhythmogenic neuronal networks in krox-20 knockout mice

    Thierry Didier Jacquin;Véronique Borday;Sylvie Schneider-Maunoury;Piotr Topilko

  • Genetic identification of an embryonic parafacial oscillator coupling to the preBötzinger complex

    Muriel Thoby-Brisson;Mattias Karlén;Ning Wu;Patrick Charnay

  • Catecholaminergic depressant effects on bulbar respiratory mechanisms.

    J. Champagnat;M. Denavit-Saubié;J.L. Henry;V. Leviel

  • Emergence of the Pre-Bötzinger Respiratory Rhythm Generator in the Mouse Embryo

    Muriel Thoby-Brisson;Jean-Baptiste Trinh;Jean Champagnat;Gilles Fortin

  • Involvement of amino acids in periodic inhibitions of bulbar respiratory neurones

    J. Champagnat;M. Denavit-Saubie´;S. Moyanova;G. Rondouin

  • Primordial respiratory-like rhythm generation in the vertebrate embryo

    Jean Champagnat;Gilles Fortin

  • ELECTRORESPONSIVE PROPERTIES AND MEMBRANE POTENTIAL TRAJECTORIES OF THREE TYPES OF INSPIRATORY NEURONS IN THE NEWBORN MOUSE BRAIN STEM IN VITRO

    J. C. Rekling;J. Champagnat;M. Denavit-Saubie

  • Involvement of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in respiratory rhythmogenesis.

    A.S. Foutz;J. Champagnat;M. Denavit-Saubié

  • Phasic and Long-Term Depression in Brainstem Nucleus Tractus Solitarius Neurons: Differing Roles of AMPA Receptor Desensitization

    Zhongren Zhou;Jean Champagnat;Chi-Sang Poon

  • Rhythm generation in the segmented hindbrain of chick embryos.

    G Fortin;F Kato;A Lumsden;J Champagnat

  • NMDA and non-NMDA receptors may play distinct roles in timing mechanisms and transmission in the feline respiratory network.

    O Pierrefiche;A S Foutz;J Champagnat;M Denavit-Saubié

  • Expression of Functional Tyrosine Kinase B Receptors by Rhythmically Active Respiratory Neurons in the Pre-Bötzinger Complex of Neonatal Mice

    Muriel Thoby-Brisson;Bruno Cauli;Jean Champagnat;Gilles Fortin

  • Somatostatin depresses excitability in neurons of the solitary tract complex through hyperpolarization and augmentation of IM, a non-inactivating voltage-dependent outward current blocked by muscarinic agonists

    T Jacquin;J Champagnat;S Madamba;M Denavit-Saubié

  • Spontaneous synaptic activities in rat nucleus tractus solitarius neurons in vitro: evidence for re-excitatory processing

    Gilles Fortin;Jean Champagnat

  • Generation of a novel functional neuronal circuit in Hoxa1 mutant mice.

    Eduardo Domínguez del Toro;Véronique Borday;Marc Davenne;Rüdiger Neun

  • N-Methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors control respiratory off-switch in cat

    Arthur S. Foutz;Jean Champagnat;Monique Denavit-Saubié

Frequent Co-Authors

Monique Denavit-Saubié
Monique Denavit-Saubié Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alain Chédotal
Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision
David M. Katz
David M. Katz Case Western Reserve University
George R. Siggins
George R. Siggins Scripps Research Institute
Massimo Pasqualetti
Massimo Pasqualetti University of Pisa
Joel C. Glover
Joel C. Glover University of Oslo
Elisabeth Traiffort
Elisabeth Traiffort Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
James L. Henry
James L. Henry McMaster University
Bruno Cauli
Bruno Cauli Sorbonne University

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