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What are the peripheral chemosensitive receptors (carotid and aortic receptors) involved in?

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Controlling rate of respiration mostly monitor oxygen partial pressure in arterial blood.

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The primary controller of the rate and depth of breathing?

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The pneumotaxic center

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The pneumotaxic center controls…

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the “switch-off” point of the inspiratory ramp signal.

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The primarily responsible for establishing the ramp signal during normal breathing?

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The dorsal respiratory group…

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What is primarily responsible for forced expiration?

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The ventral respiratory group

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What is referred to as Chyne- Stokes breathing; it is often assocaited with cardiac arrest?

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A repeated breathing cycle consisting of a period of apnea replaced by a period of increasingly rapid and deep breathing .

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J (juxtaglomerular) receptors ( C fibers)?

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Sensitive to pulmonary edema such as occurs in congestive heart failure.

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Responds the excessive stretching of the lung…

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The Hering-Breuer reflex…