aortic body
aortic glomus

A paraganglioma is a tumor that may involve the aortic body.

The aortic bodies are most sensitive to the content of arterial oxygen.

Carotid bodies and aortic bodies detect changes primarily in oxygen.

Another type of sustentacular cell is found with glomus cells of the carotid and aortic bodies.

The efferent fibres of the aortic body chemoreceptors are relayed by the Vagus nerve.

Almitrine bismesylate stimulates chemoreceptors in carotic and aortic bodies.

Some sources equate the "aortic bodies" and "paraaortic bodies", while other sources explicitly distinguish between the two.

Aortic body (glomus aorticum)

Aortic body detects changes in blood oxygen and carbon dioxide, but not pH, while carotid body detects all three.

Inputs to this neuron come from the peripheral chemoreceptors, carotid body, aortic body, and central chemoreceptors.

The aortic body is one of several small clusters of chemoreceptors, baroreceptors, and supporting cells located along the aortic arch.

A glomus cell (type I) is a peripheral chemoreceptor, mainly located in the carotid bodies and aortic bodies, that helps the body regulate breathing.

Chemoreceptors found in carotid bodies and aortic bodies are responsible for detecting decrease in blood pH by this carbon dioxide.

The type I (glomus) cells in the carotid (and aortic bodies) are derived from neuroectoderm and are thus electrically excitable.

Direct chemoreceptors include the taste buds in the gustatory system as well as receptors in the aortic bodies which detect changes in oxygen concentration.

Peripheral chemoreceptors (carotid and aortic bodies) and central chemoreceptors (medullary neurons) primarily function to regulate respiratory activity.

Clusters of glomus cells, of which the carotid bodies and aortic bodies are the most important, are called non-chromaffin or parasympathetic paraganglia.

The glomus body is not to be confused with the glomus cell which is a kind of chemoreceptor found in the carotid bodies and aortic bodies.

They are located in the aortic body and carotid body, on the transverse aortic arch and on the common carotid artery, respectively.

When a distinction is made, the "aortic bodies" are chemoreceptors which regulate circulation, while the "paraaortic bodies" are the chromaffin cells which manufacture catecholamines.

These levels are sensed by chemoreceptors in the medulla oblongata for pH, and the carotid and aortic bodies for oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Nonchromaffin paraganglia include carotid bodies and aortic bodies, some are distributed in the ear, along the vagus nerve, in the larynx and at various other places.

The drop in the blood's pH stimulates chemoreceptors in the carotid and aortic bodies as well as those inside the respiratory center in the medulla oblongata.

Taste buds, the cells of the carotid and aortic bodies, the olfactory cells of the nose. . . we couldn't do much with those, so naturally that was where we concentrated our efforts."

Afferent neurons from the carotid bodies and aortic bodies are via the glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX) and the vagus nerve (CN X), respectively.