Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and
integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping …

Slow breathing practices have been adopted in the modern world across the globe due to
their claimed health benefits. This has piqued the interest of researchers and clinicians who …

The two major interfaces separating brain and blood have different primary roles. The
choroid plexuses secrete cerebrospinal fluid into the ventricles, accounting for most net fluid …

The ventral surface of the rostral medulla oblongata has been suspected since the 1960s to
harbor central respiratory chemoreceptors [ie, acid-activated neurons that regulate breathing …

Sex is a biological concept determined at conception. Gender is a social concept. Medicine
recognises sex as a biological variable and recommends including sex as a factor in clinical …

Despite increasingly detailed knowledge of the biochemical processes involved in the
determination of meat quality traits, robust models, using biochemical characteristics of the …

The nervous system subdivides into the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous
system. The central nervous system is the brain and spinal cord, while the peripheral …

After a short historical account, and a discussion of Hill and Meyerhof's theory of the
energetics of muscular exercise, we analyse steady-state rest and exercise as the condition …

We review the substantial recent progress made in understanding the underlying
mechanisms controlling breathing and the applicability of these findings to selected human …

Aims Augmented reflex responses from peripheral chemoreceptors, which are mainly
localized in the carotid bodies (CBs), characterize patients with systolic heart failure and …