Oxygen and carotid body chemotransduction: The cholinergic hypothesis - A brief history and new evaluation

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-104

  Fitzgerald, Robert S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACh; Arterial sensing; Carotid body; Chemotransduction; Glomus cell; Mediators; Oxygen; Systemic reflex responses

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; CAROTID BODY; CAROTID SINUS NERVE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CAROTID BODY; CHEMORECEPTORS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 0034077794     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(00)00091-8     Document Type: Review

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