Gender influences rhythm generation during the transition from a well-oxygenated state to hypoxia.

<p>(A) Male preBötC rhythms (top) tend to fail more frequently compared to female rhythm (bottom). Asterisks denote detected integrated population bursts and scale bar repesents 20 sec. (B) Kaplan-Meier curves determined for both male (blue) and females (magenta) preBötC rhythms are significantly different from one another. The first 10 sec interburst interval was used as the endpoint metric during the transition to hypoxia.