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Lung and Airway Receptors

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Control of Respiration

Abstract

There exist some sensory receptors, with fibres running in the branches of the sympathetic system, located near the roots of the lungs but these are more related to the mediastinal structures rather than the lungs. Apart from the occasional impulses generated in these receptors by lung movements apparently no other information from the lungs reaches the central nervous system via the sympathetic routes (Holmes & Torrance, 1959). This is in contrast to the relatively vast amount of information that travels to the brain through the vagus nerves during rest and exercise.

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Paintal, A.S. (1983). Lung and Airway Receptors. In: Pallot, D.J. (eds) Control of Respiration. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1487-5_3

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