ILOs:
- Define the terms ‘chemoreceptor’ and ‘mechanoreceptor’.
- Understand the role peripheral and central chemoreceptors play in maintaining blood gas homeostasis.
- Understand the role mechanoreceptors have in adjusting and adapting ventilation.
- Describe the different types of respiratory neurones within the brainstem
- What is the purpose of breathing?
- What is the pO2 and pCO2 in the blood at rest?
- What is the rest exchange of O2 and CO2 in ml?
- What is the exchange of O2 and CO2 walking at 3mph?
- What is the exchange of O2 and CO2 at severe exercise?
- What is breathing modulated by?
- How is the brain involved in the control of breathing?
- What are chemoreceptors and what is their role in breathing?
- What are the features of the ventilatory response to hypoxia?
- What are the features of the ventilatory response to hypercapnia?
- What are mechanoreceptors and what is their role in breathing?
- How is information integrated in the brainstem?
- What are pattern generating neurones and what role do they play in the regulation of breathing?
- Outline the output from the brainstem and the pathway these signals take