carotid body

The cells used by the researchers came from the monkeys' carotid bodies, small organs in the neck.

The carotid bodies assist in maintaining normal blood pressure and heartbeats.

The carotid body contains the most vascular tissue in the human body.

Tumors of the carotid body may show familial clustering.

Rarely, a malignant neuroblastoma may originate from the carotid body.

The thyroid gland is very vascular, but not quite as much as the carotid body.

Carotid bodies and aortic bodies detect changes primarily in oxygen.

In humans, hypoxia is detected by chemoreceptors in the carotid body.

The carotid bodies are most sensitive to changes in partial pressure of arterial oxygen and pH.

A paraganglioma is a tumor that may involve the carotid body and is usually benign.

Inability to increase the breathing rate can be caused by inadequate carotid body response or pulmonary or renal disease.

This may happen with few warning symptoms, since the human carotid body is a relatively slow and a poor low-oxygen (hypoxia) sensing system.

The carotid body.

It receives visceral sensory fibers from the carotid bodies, carotid sinus.

It enhances respiration by acting as an agonist of peripheral chemoreceptors located on the carotid bodies.

Carotid paraganglioma (carotid body tumor): Is the most common of the head and neck paragangliomas.

Afferent neurons significant in dyspnea arise from a large number of sources including the carotid bodies, medulla, lungs, and chest wall.

The membrane hypothesis was proposed for the carotid body in mice, and it predicts that oxygen sensing is an ion balance initiated process.

At high altitude, in the short term, the lack of oxygen is sensed by the carotid bodies, which causes an increase in the breathing rate (hyperventilation).

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.

Behind the angle of bifurcation of the common carotid artery is a reddish-brown oval body known as the carotid body.

The carotid body detects changes in the composition of arterial blood flowing through it, mainly the partial pressure of oxygen, but also of carbon dioxide.

The feedback from the carotid body is sent to the cardiorespiratory centers in the medulla oblongata via the afferent branches of the Glossopharyngeal nerve.

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