TY - GEN AU - Ortega Sáenz, Patricia AU - Pardal, R. AU - Levitsky, K. AU - Villadiego, Javier AU - Muñoz Manchado, Ana Belén AU - Durán, R. AU - Bonilla Henao, Victoria AU - Arias-Mayenco, I. AU - Sobrino, V. AU - Ordóñez, A. AU - Oliver, M. AU - Toledo-Aral, J.J. AU - López-Barneo, J. A4 - Anatomía Patológica, Biología Celular, Histología, Historia de la Ciencia, Medicina Legal y Forense y Toxicología PY - 2013 SN - 0022-3751 SN - 1469-7793 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33511 AB - The carotid body (CB) is the major peripheral arterial chemoreceptor in mammals that mediates the acute hyperventilatory response to hypoxia. The CB grows in response to sustained hypoxia and also participates in acclimatisation to chronic hypoxaemia.... LA - eng PB - The Physiological Society TI - Cellular properties and chemosensory responses of the human carotid body DO - 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.263657 ER -