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Chemoreceptor Cells

"Chemoreceptor Cells" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Cells specialized to detect chemical substances and relay that information centrally in the nervous system. Chemoreceptor cells may monitor external stimuli, as in TASTE and OLFACTION, or internal stimuli, such as the concentrations of OXYGEN and CARBON DIOXIDE in the blood.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chemoreceptor Cells" by people in this website by year, and whether "Chemoreceptor Cells" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 37 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2000 and 2004
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