Question

ILUL WUUU Upper WILTUUL sullallalll! 13.. What structures control the rate and depth of breathing (think CNS respiratory centers, Briefly describe their action?

Answer 1

The respiratory centre in the medulla and pons of the brainstem controls the rate and depth of respiration, (the respiratory rhythm), through various inputs. ... The ventral respiratory group controls voluntary forced exhalation and acts to increase the force of inhalation. The most important factor controlling the rate and depth of breathing is the effect of carbon dioxide on the central chemoreceptors. The hydrogen ions stimulate the central chemoreceptors, which send nerve impulses to the respiratory centers in the medulla.

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One way in which breathing is controlled is through feedback by chemoreceptors. There are two kinds of respiratory chemoreceptors: arterial chemoreceptors, which monitor and respond to changes in the partial pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the arterial blood, and central chemoreceptors in the brain, which respond to changes in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in their .

The pons is in the brainstem situated between the midbrain and the medulla oblongata, and in front of the cerebellum. A separating groove between the pons and the medulla is the inferior pontine sulcus. The superior pontine sulcus separates the pons from the midbrain. The pons can be broadly divided into two parts: the basilar part of the pons (ventral pons), and the pontine tegmentum (dorsal pons). Running down the midline of the ventral surface is the basilar sulcus, a groove for the basilar artery. Most of the pons is supplied by the pontine arteries, which arise from the basilar artery. A smaller portion of the pons is supplied by the anterior and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries.