KROK 1 2007 – Question 199 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology

Short-term physical activity resulted in reflex amplification of heart rate and raise of systemic arterial pressure. What receptors activation was the main cause of pressor reflex realization?

  1. A. Proprioreceptors of active muscles
  2. B. Vascular chemoreceptors
  3. C. Vascular volume receptors
  4. D. Hypothalamus thermoreceptors
  5. E. Vascular baroceptors
Hint

At the start of muscular work the signals that push heart rate and pressure up arise in the working tissue itself, before blood composition has changed.

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