Pulmonary stretch receptor activity in man: a comparison with dog and cat

1. The ‘collision’ technique has been shown to be suitable for recording orthodromic ‘A’ fibre activity in a whole, functioning cervical vagus nerve. This activity predominantly arises from pulmonary stretch receptors.

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