Morphofunctional and Neurochemical Aspects of the Mammalian Carotid Body

This new volume of the book series Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology provides a complete and exhaustive overview of the morphofunctional organization of the mammalian carotid body, a polymodal chemosensory organ responsible for the maintenance of blood gas homeostasis.

The authors review the state of the art of the neurochemical anatomy of carotid body´s cell populations with a spec...