Book Details

The Arterial Chemoreceptors

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-0-387-31311-5

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This book represents an updated review of the physiology of the carotid body chemoreceptors. Additionally, this volume provides data from studies carried out in other O2-sensing tissues including pulmonary vasculature and erythropoietin producing cells.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Arterial Chemoreceptors, Carotid Body, Oxygen reactive species, Oxygen sensing, Oxygen sensitive potassium channels, cells, endothelium, physiology, tissue