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- In bacteria, chemoreceptors are essential in the mediation of chemotaxis. Bacteria utilize complex long helical proteins as chemoreceptors, permitting...
- A central chemoreceptor is a chemoreceptor sensitive to the pH of its environment. Central chemoreceptors are located on the ventrolateral medullary surface...
- other oxygen-sensing chemoreceptors, such as the aortic body or central chemoreceptors. However, non-carotid body chemoreceptors are sometimes not enough...
- receptors located in the CTZ. These receptors in the CTZ are called chemoreceptors because they interact with different types of molecules which are usually...
- various inputs. These include signals from the peripheral chemoreceptors and central chemoreceptors; from the vagus nerve and glossopharyngeal nerve carrying...
- Olfactory receptors (ORs), also known as odorant receptors, are chemoreceptors expressed in the cell membranes of olfactory receptor neurons and are responsible...
- and is sustained via neural processing originating in the carotid chemoreceptors. The most noticeable effects are on the cardiovascular system, which...
- The aortic bodies are one of several small clusters of peripheral chemoreceptors located along the aortic arch. They are important in measuring partial...
- peripheral chemoreceptors are primarily sensitive to decreases in the partial pressure of oxygen (PO2). This is in contrast to the central chemoreceptors in the...
- metabolic acidosis, chemoreceptors sense a changed acid-base balance with a plasma pH of lesser than normal (<7.4). The chemoreceptors send afferent fibers...