The internal milieu of the body is controlled by a system of interoceptors coupled to motor outflows that drive compensatory adaptive responses. These include the arterial chemoreceptors, best known ...

ABSTRACT: The lung’s influence on our emotional well-being, beyond its primary role in respiration, remains a compelling scientific mystery. Here, we put forth a unique perspective: emotional ...

University of Missouri researchers found that overactive chemoreceptors linked to oxygen sensing are a factor in type 2 diabetes. While hyperoxia reduced activity and improved some cardiovascular ...

Researchers studied oxygen treatment as a potential therapy to target specific cells linked to the development of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes ...

Researchers from the University of Missouri are studying potential therapies to target specific cells linked to the development of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders like high blood pressure and ...

Mammalian carotid body arterial chemoreceptors function as an early warning system for hypoxia, triggering acute life-saving arousal and cardiorespiratory reflexes. To serve this role, carotid body ...

The body has 25 types of functional bitter taste receptors, but tasting is not their only function. Research has shown these receptors also exist in the gastrointestinal tract and on the cells of ...

1 Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Medicine, University of Auckland and Green Lane Cardiovascular Service, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New ...

Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany Nutritional Systems Biology, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany Metallic ...

Nicholas Bellono, a professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, was worried about his first octopus. “It’s not trivial to have an octopus in the lab,” he says. They're wily ...