The role of respiratory failure caused by congenital central nervous system abnormalities and the effect of β-casomorphins in sudden infant death syndrome pathogenesis

B Sumińska-Ziemann; T Gos; Z Jankowski

doi:10.5114/amsik.2015.53226

The role of respiratory failure caused by congenital central nervous system abnormalities and the effect of β-casomorphins in sudden infant death syndrome pathogenesis

Arch Med Sadowej Kryminol. 2015;65(2):99-111. doi: 10.5114/amsik.2015.53226.

Authors

B Sumińska-Ziemann¹, T Gos, Z Jankowski

Affiliation

¹ Barbara Sumińska-Ziemann, Chair and Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Dębowa 23, 80-204 Gdansk, Poland, e-mail: basia_suminska@gumed.edu.pl.

PMID: 26284968
DOI: 10.5114/amsik.2015.53226

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to discuss the role of respiratory failure caused by endogenous (both structural and functional) abnormalities in the central nervous system and exogenous food-derived opioid-like peptides in the pathogenesis of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). By stimulating μ-opioid receptors, opioid-like peptides may suppress the tonic activity of the respiratory centre in the brain stem.