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What are chemoreceptors?
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Chemoreceptors: Chemoreceptors neural receptors that respond to some local chemical change. Usually refers to those which influence the respiratory and cardiovascular control centres in the brain stem: the medullary chemoreceptors, sensitive to ph changes in the cerebral extracellular fluid, and the arterial chemoreceptors which continually sense and respond to changes mainly in blood oxygen, carbon dioxide.
Answered 5/12/2016
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