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Alpha-bungarotoxin binding in cat carotid body
Dinger, Bruce
González, Constancio
Yoshizaki, Katsuaki
Fidone, Salvatore
NeurofisiologĂa
The carotid body is an arterial chemosensory organ which detects changes in
blood gas tensions and pH, and reflexly contributes to the cardiorespiratory adjustments
which occur during hypoxia, hypercapnia and acidosis. However, the sensory
mechanisms involved in carotid chemoreception remain to be elucidated.
Morphologically, the carotid body consists of an association of elemental units,
or glomeruli, within a connective tissue stroma penetrated by a dense capillary net 5.
The glomeruli are comprised of catecholamine-rich type I, or chief cells, which are enveloped
by glial-like processes of type II, or sustentacular, cellsa,4,19. Sensory fibers
from the carotid sinus nerve penetrate the glomeruli to terminate in synaptic-like
apposition on type I cellst,18, 21.
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1981
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Brain Research, 1981, n. 205. p. 187-193
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Brain Research
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