Towards the sensory nature of the carotid body: Hering, De Castro and Heymans
The carotid body or glomus caroticum is a chemosensory organ bilaterally located between the external and internal carotid arteries. Although known by anatomists since the report included by Von Haller and Taube in the mid XVIIIth century, its detailed study started the first quarter of the XXth. Th...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Neuroanatomy |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.05.023.2009/full |