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J Appl Physiol 48: 781-788, 1980;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 48, Issue 5 781-788, Copyright © 1980 by American Physiological Society

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Relative responses of aortic body and carotid body chemoreceptors to hypotension

S. Lahiri, T. Nishino, A. Mokashi and E. Mulligan

Responses to acute arterial blood pressure changes of a single or a few chemoreceptor afferents from the aortic body and carotid body at constant arterial blood gases and pH were measured in 16 adult cats. During normocapnic normoxia and moderate hypoxia (arterial oxygen tension of 60 Torr) an induced hypotension of 80 Torr increased strikingly the discharge rate of all aortic chemoreceptors but not of most carotid chemoreceptors; hypotension down to the level of 50 Torr stimulated most carotid chemoreceptors only slightly. Hyperoxia eliminated the stimulatory effect of this degree of hypotension on carotid chemoreceptors; it did not affect aortic chemoreceptors to the same extent. Hypoxia augmented the effect on aortic chemoreceptors more than the effect on carotid chemoreceptors. Thus the effect of hypotension was dependent on arterial oxygen tension. The greater effect of hypotension on aortic body chemoreceptor activity indicates a greater normal circulatory constraint for the aortic body. Accordingly, aortic chemoreceptors are more suited to monitor circulatory changes in O2 flow, and carotid chemoreceptors are more suited to monitor arterial gas pressure changes due to respiration.


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