bulbospinal

Bulbospinal polio is a combination of bulbar and spinal paralysis.

The neurological pathway for involuntary respiration is called the bulbospinal pathway.

Lower decerebration results in a "Bulbospinal" animal:

Depending on the site of paralysis, paralytic poliomyelitis is classified as spinal, bulbar, or bulbospinal.

The bulbospinal pathway descending from the VRG allows the respiratory centers to control muscle relaxation, which leads to exhalation.

Approximately 19% of all paralytic polio cases have both bulbar and spinal symptoms; this subtype is called respiratory or bulbospinal polio.

Bulbospinal muscular atrophy, also known as Kennedy's disease, is a rare recessive trinucleotide, polyglutamine disorder that is linked to the X chromosome.

The bulbospinal pathways are modulated with the support of and swing of the gait cycle, and this modulation is accomplished through the connections with the cerebral vermis.

This leads to the development of paralytic poliomyelitis, the various forms of which (spinal, bulbar, and bulbospinal) vary only with the amount of neuronal damage and inflammation that occurs, and the region of the CNS affected.

Rows of iron lungs filled hospital wards at the height of the polio outbreaks of the 1940s and 1950s, assisting the breathing of children and adults (mostly children) with bulbar polio and bulbospinal polio.