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Aortic Nerve Chemoreceptors are Sensitive to Changes in PaC02

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A single chemoreceptor fibre from the carotid body responds both to hypoxia and to hypercapnia and these responses of chemoreceptors have been described for the steady state and also when the stimuli change1.

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  1. University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, England

    M. A. Hanson, P. S. Rao & R. W. Torrance

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  1. The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, UK

    Robert S. Fitzgerald

  2. Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France

    Henry Gautier

  3. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennysylvania, USA

    Sukhamay Lahiri

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Hanson, M.A., Rao, P.S., Torrance, R.W. (1978). Aortic Nerve Chemoreceptors are Sensitive to Changes in PaC02 . In: Fitzgerald, R.S., Gautier, H., Lahiri, S. (eds) The Regulation of Respiration During Sleep and Anesthesia. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 99. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4009-6_29

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