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The impulse activity in cardiac afferent vagal fibres

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1. Atrial receptors have been divided into those of A type and those of B type according to the pattern of discharge which they display. This parcellation seems perhaps too rigid as these receptors can change the pattern of their discharge according to the state of venous filling of the heart.

2. Veratrine stimulates all vagal ventricular receptors, but only a proportion (less than 50%) of vagal atrial receptors. The drug can stimulate right atrial receptors as well as those on the left side of the heart.

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  1. Department of Physiology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, W. 1, London

    Eric Neil & Norman Joels

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Dedicated to Professor Dr. A. Jarisch on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

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Neil, E., Joels, N. The impulse activity in cardiac afferent vagal fibres. Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Arch 240, 453–460 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00244938

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