Comparative Embryology of the Carotid Body

Overview

Journal Respir Physiol Neurobiol

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2012 Aug 21

PMID 22902512

Citations 9

Authors

Steven C Hempleman

Stephen J Warburton

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Abstract

Vertebrate carotid bodies and related structures (branchial arch oxygen chemoreceptors in fishes, carotid labyrinth in amphibians, chemoreceptors in the wall of the common carotid and its branches in birds) develop in embryos when neural crest cells, blood vessels, and nerve fibers from sympathetic and cranial nerve ganglia invade mesenchymal primordia in the wall of the 3rd branchial arch. This review focuses on literature published since the 1970s investigating similarities and differences in the embryological development of 3rd arch oxygen chemoreceptors, especially between mammals and birds, but also considering reptiles, amphibians and fishes.

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