Back to the future: carbon dioxide chemoreceptors in the mammalian brain
Gordon S Mitchell
The author is in the Department of Comparative Biosciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. mitchell@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
Neurons that increase breathing in response to increased CO2 have long been sought along the ventral medullary surface, but not found, until now. Exquisitely CO2-sensitive neurons identified near this site may be the long-lost central chemoreceptors.
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