baroreceptor
IPA: bɝrisˈɛptɝ
noun
- (anatomy) A nerve ending that is sensitive to changes in blood pressure
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Examples of "baroreceptor" in Sentences
- As your article states, this is a type of baroreceptor.
- Time course of baroreceptor resetting in acute hypertension.
- The afferent nerves from the baroreceptors are called buffer nerves.
- The baroreceptor reflex acts to increase heart rate when blood pressure drops.
- Information gathered through baroreceptor sites is routed to the brain for processing.
- The researchers found that nitric oxide is a potent regulator of BDNF in baroreceptor neurons.
- Influence of nonthermal baroreceptor modulation of heat loss responses during uncompensable heat stress.
- IL-6 microinjected into the nucleus tractus solitarii attenuates cardiac baroreceptor reflex function in rats.
- Several sensory-motor loops such as temperature, pH, baroreceptor reflex and others have been found to control heart rate.
- These communications are handled by baroreceptor sites, which work as nerve receptors that respond to changes in pressure.
- Seravalle G, Calhoun DA, Mancia G (1994) Physical training and baroreceptor control of sympathetic nerve activity in humans.
- MSNA consists of baroreceptor reflex controlled vasoconstrictor impulses to the muscle vascular bed, involved in dynamic blood pressure regulation.
- The brain's role in regulating respiration and heart rate relies on information received from baroreceptor sites and chemoreceptor sites located inside the brain stem.
- There was also an improvement on vagally mediated arterial baroreceptor cardiac reflex sensitivity in a subset of ten testosterone patients who were compared with 12 placebo patients.