“…For example, HVD has been observed in awake humans (155,167,350,351), awake and anesthetized cats (405), awake rats (229,382), anesthetized rats, as a decline in phrenic nerve activity (156,375), and in anesthetized rabbits (136), but is not observed in awake dogs (44, 60). Perhaps more confounding, in awake goats some groups detect HVD (120,121,229,382), while others do not (2,76,285). Studies on awake rats that have not reported an occurrence of HVD (2) may be explained by the short time course of HVD (109), such that ventilation may have already stabilized at a lower level by the time steady state HVR measurements were made.…”