Muscular respiratory receptors in self-regulation of normal breathing in man.
In man, in the process of evolution the proprioceptive reflexes from the chest muscle during apnea become weak. Probably the impulses from the respiratory stretch receptors do not take part in self-regulation of eupnea.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007366:Intercostal Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000502:physiology*; D011187:Posture; D012119:Respiration