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Hyperplasia of the carotid bodies occurs in patients with chronic hypoxaemia complicating diseases such as pulmonary emphysema, or systemic hypertension (Heath, Smith and Jago, 1982: Smith, Jago and Heath, 1982). The histological appearances are the same in either situation and comprise a hyperplasia of sustentacular cells with atrophy of the central cores of chief cells in the cell clusters. We described recently a case in which there was a different type of cellular reaction occurring in a woman of 62 with congenital heart disease (Smith, Hurst, Heath and Drewe, 1986). These findings have led us to reconsider the possible function of the dark variant of chief cell.
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Smith, P., Hurst, G., Heath, D., Drewe, R. (1987). The Carotid Bodies in a Case of Ventricular Septal Defect. In: Ribeiro, J.A., Pallot, D.J. (eds) Chemoreceptors in Respiratory Control. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1155-1_29
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