what receptors are stimulated in the hering-breuer reflex?
respiration and respiratory systems. Inflation of the lungs in animals stops breathing by a reflex described by the German physiologist Ewald Hering and the Austrian physiologist Josef Breuer. The Hering-Breuer reflex is initiated by lung expansion, which excites stretch receptors in the airways. Stimulation of these receptors, which send signals to the medulla by the vagus nerve, shortens inspiratory times as tidal volume (the...