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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease anoxia
Phenotype C0037315|sleep-disordered breathing
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PubMedID- 24036592 The carotid body (cb) plays an important role in the alteration of cardiorespiratory activity in chronic intermittent hypoxia (ih) associated with sleep-disordered breathing, which may be mediated by local expression of the renin-angiotensin system (ras).
PubMedID- 23080136 Chronic intermittent hypoxia (ih) associated with sleep-disordered breathing is an important cause of hypertension, which results from carotid body-mediated activation of the sympathetic nervous system.

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