baroreceptor

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• When blood pressure drops, the baroreceptor sends signals to the brain to increase heart rate.

• The baroreceptor helps regulate blood pressure by detecting changes in the stretch of blood vessels.

• DIAGRAM: Fig 3 -- Neuronal pathways of the baroreceptor reflex.

  Academic text (1991)

• The afferent and central portions of the baroreceptor reflex arc, however, function normally during syncope, and vasopressin is secreted.

  Academic text (1991)

• If so, plasma concentration of endothelin-1 (referred to as endothelin in this article) would be expected to change with activation of the baroreceptor reflex.

  Academic text (1991)

• Because specific inhibitors of endothelin action are not yet available, the physiological function of the endothelin released into plasma during baroreceptor activation remains to be defined.

  Academic text (1991)

• Since plasma endothelin concentration increases with upright posture and decreases with volume expansion, a study was conducted to test whether activation of the baroreceptor reflex releases endothelin into plasma.

  Academic text (1991)

• The abrupt return to the horizontal position would have augmented venous return, eliciting an immediate Starling effect with subsequent increases in blood pressure and activation of the baroreceptor reflex to decrease heart rate.

  Academic text (2000)

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