The Carbon Dioxide Response Curve for Chronic Hypercapnia in Man Authors : C. van Ypersele de Strihou , M.D. , L. Brasseur , M.D. , and J. De Coninck Author Info & Affiliations Published July 21, 1966 ...

Inspection of the carbon dioxide response curves showed that aminophylline lowered the respiratory-center threshold to carbon dioxide, but the sensitivity of the respiratory center remained unchanged.

It is a scientific icon, which belongs, some claim, alongside E=mc2 and the double helix. Its name - the Keeling Curve - may be scarcely known outside scientific circles, but the jagged upward slope ...