Introduction to Experimenters and Results of Tests on Hypoxic Drive

Luc J Teppema and Albert Dahan (Teppema and Dahan 2010), two major physiological scientists conducted a study on the Hypoxic Drive and ventilatory response. The importance of their study is that the study delineates the effects of the Hypoxic Drive and chemoreceptors and also how they function in reality. The point in the making is that there are genetic conditions and also physiological conditions and naturally selective reasons as to why the Hypoxic Drive was dropped into a secondary slot. The experiments described will allow for the research question to be seen through an experimental point of view. Though experimentation was not used for this extended essay, scientists who have legitimately performed experiments in regards to the Hypoxic Drive and their conclusive data will be referenced here.

The three diagrams above show some of the experimental results that Teppema and Dahan recovered from their studies. In the diagrams, they map the points at which hypoxia is induced and how it affects chemical substance concentrations in experimental bodies within that period of time in minutes.