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Therefore, we aimed to determine the respiratory motor pattern of CSB resulting from the interaction of inspiratory and expiratory oscillators and identify the neural mechanism responsible for breathing regularization induced by the supplemental CO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> administration. Analysis of the inspiratory and expiratory motor pattern in a transgenic mouse model lacking connexin-36 electrical synapses, the neonatal (P14) Cx36 knockout male mouse, with a persistent CSB, revealed that the reconfigurations recurrent between apnea and hyperpnea and vice versa result from cyclical turn on\/off of active expiration driven by the expiratory oscillator, which acts as a master pacemaker of respiration and entrains the inspiratory oscillator to restore ventilation. The results also showed that the suppression of CSB by supplemental 12% CO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> in inhaled air is due to the stabilization of coupling between expiratory and inspiratory oscillators, which causes the regularization of respiration. CSB rebooted after washout of CO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> excess when the inspiratory activity depressed again profoundly, indicating that the disability of the inspiratory oscillator to sustain ventilation is the triggering factor of CSB. Under these circumstances, the expiratory oscillator activated by the cyclic increase of CO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> behaves as an \u201canti-apnea\u201d center generating the crescendo\u2013decrescendo hyperpnea and periodic breathing. 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