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The morphology of the carotid body’s vasculature is one of the organ’s most distinctive features. Blood vessels that determine the environment of the chemoreceptors are so large and numerous that more than one fourth of carotid body’s volume is blood.
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McDonald, D.M., Haskell, A. (1987). Vascular Geometry of Arterial Chemoreceptors: Learning about the Carotid Body by Studying Paraganglia of the Superior Laryngeal Nerve. In: Ribeiro, J.A., Pallot, D.J. (eds) Chemoreceptors in Respiratory Control. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1155-1_5
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