Arterial Chemoreception From Molecules to Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nurse, Colin A. (Editor), Gonzalez, Constancio (Editor), Peers, Chris (Editor), Prabhakar, Nanduri (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 758
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Human Physiology.

Arterial chemoreceptors are unique structures which continuously monitor changes in arterial blood oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose, and acid.  Alterations in these gases are almost instantaneously sensed by arterial chemoreceptors and relayed into a physiological response which restores blood homeos...