This simulator demonstrates how glomus cells in the carotid body respond to changing arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, and how that signal travels through the glossopharyngeal nerve to alter breathing rate and depth.
Adjust the simulated arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide levels to see how glomus cell firing rate changes, and watch how the resulting reflex signal shifts the breathing pattern in real time.
Sliders let you set arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide levels while the display shows glomus cell firing rate and the resulting breathing response.
Gram for gram, the carotid body receives one of the highest blood flow rates of any tissue in the human body, allowing its glomus cells to sense changes in arterial blood gases almost as fast as the blood itself changes.
This simulator demonstrates how glomus cells in the carotid body respond to changing arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, and how that signal travels through the glossopharyngeal nerve to alter breathing rate and depth.
This simulator demonstrates how glomus cells in the carotid body respond to changing arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, and how that signal travels through the glossopharyngeal nerve to alter breathing rate and depth.
Adjust the simulated arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide levels to see how glomus cell firing rate changes, and watch how the resulting reflex signal shifts the breathing pattern in real time.
Gram for gram, the carotid body receives one of the highest blood flow rates of any tissue in the human body, allowing its glomus cells to sense changes in arterial blood gases almost as fast as the blood itself changes.