Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 75, No. 10 (Oct., 1978), pp. 5239-5243 (5 pages) In a study of autonomic reflexes it was found that some produce a ...
In fetal life, peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation by hypoxia or hypercapnia produces bradycardia and peripheral vasoconstriction (1, 2). After birth, however, the same stimuli cause hyperventilation ...