Arterial chemoreceptors are unique structures which continuously monitor changes in arterial blood oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose, and acid.  Alterations in these gases are almost instantaneously sensed by arterial chemoreceptors and relayed into a physiological response which restores blood homeostasis.  Arterial Chemoreception contains updated material regarding the physiology of the primary arterial chemoreceptor; the carotid body.  Moreover, this book also explores tantalizing evidence regarding the contribution of the aortic bodies, chromaffin cells, lung neuroepithelial bodies, and brainstem areas involved in monitoring changes in blood gases.  Furthermore this collection includes data showing the critical importance of these chemoreceptors in the pathophysiology of human disease and possible therapeutic treatments.

Effect of chronic caffeine intake on carotid body catecholamine dynamics in control and chronically hypoxic rats.- Effects of Cigarette Smoke and Chronic Hypoxia on Ventilation in Guinea Pigs. Clinical Significance.- Some Reflections on Intermittent Hypoxia. Does it Constitute the Translational Niche for Carotid Body Chemoreceptor Researchers?.- Role of Central / PeripheralChemoreceptors and Their Interdependence in the Pathophysiology of Sleep Apnea - Invited Article.- Physiologic Basis for Intermittent Hypoxic Episodes In Preterm Infants.- Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia Increases Apnoea Index in Sleeping Rats.- Contribution of TASK-like potassium channels to the enhanced rat carotid body responsiveness to hypoxia.- Antioxidation and the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response.- Differential Regulation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase by Continuous and Intermittent Hypoxia.- Heart Failure and Carotid Body Chemoreception.