KROK 1 2009 – Question 179 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
Vagus nerves of an experimental animal have been cut on the both sides. What respiratory changes will result from this?
- A. Respiration will become deep and infrequent
- B. Respiration will become deep and frequent
- C. There will be no respiratory changes
- D. Respiration will become shallow and frequent
- E. Respiration will become shallow and infrequent
Hint
Think about which feedback signal from the lungs travels in the vagus nerves, and what it normally does to the duration of each inspiration.
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