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In 19322 Meldrum and Roughton in Cambridge and Stadie and Obrien in Philadelphia knew that there must be a catalytic acceleration of the dehydration of HCO3 - in the red cells in a lung capillary and were looking for an enzyme, which turned out to be carbonic anhydrase (CA). In contrast today we know there is CA in the carotid body, but we do not know its function. A fundamental assumption is that since nature carefully maintains CA in the carotid body, it is there for a definite purpose.Therefore I will briefly summarize our present knowledge about CA and list some possible ways in which it might be involved in chemosensing by the carotid body.
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Forster, R.E. (1993). Carbonic Anhydrase and the Carotid Body. In: Data, P.G., Acker, H., Lahiri, S. (eds) Neurobiology and Cell Physiology of Chemoreception. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 337. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2966-8_20
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