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Pulmonary Rapidly Adapting Receptors and Airway Constriction

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Advances in Modeling and Control of Ventilation

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In general, the airway and pulmonary receptors can be divided into three groups: 1) slowly adapting pulmonary stretch receptors (PSRs); 2) rapidly adapting receptors (RARs); 3) receptors innervated by C-fibers. PSRs and RARs are mechanoreceptors, although RARs are also activated by many biological and chemical substances (3, 16, 17, 29). On the other hand, C-fibers are believed to be chemosensitive endings (2).

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  1. Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, ACB-3, 530 S. Jackson St, Louisville, Kentucky, 40292, UK

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  1. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Richard L. Hughson

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    David A. Cunningham

  3. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Yu, J. (1998). Pulmonary Rapidly Adapting Receptors and Airway Constriction. In: Hughson, R.L., Cunningham, D.A., Duffin, J. (eds) Advances in Modeling and Control of Ventilation. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 450. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9077-1_26

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