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Plasticity of Central Chemoreceptors: Effect of Bilateral Carotid Body Resection on Central CO(2) Sensitivity

BACKGROUND: Human breathing is regulated by feedback and feed-forward control mechanisms, allowing a strict matching between metabolic needs and the uptake of oxygen in the lungs. The most important control mechanism, the metabolic ventilatory control system, is fine-tuned by two sets of chemorecept...

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Autores principales: Dahan, Albert, Nieuwenhuijs, Diederik, Teppema, Luc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1925127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17676946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040239