Sentences with baroceptor
- The decrease in cardiac output that occurs with heart failure is associated with a decrease in blood pressure that activates baroreceptors located in the aortic arch and carotid arteries.
- The vagus nerve transmits afferent signals from the aortic arch baroreceptors, regulating arterial pressure.
- In addition to arterial baroreceptors, low-pressure baroreceptors exist and these respond to the degree of stretch of veins and the cardiac atria.
- Centrally, there is reduced density and sensitivity of the baroreceptors and a down regulation of sympathetic receptors.
- When the baroreceptors sense the slightest drop in pressure, a coordinated increase in sympathetic outflow occurs.