Word: barorecep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases, the cause of high blood pressure is unknown. The one thing certain is that the pressure can be influenced by the carotid nerves and the carotid nerve sinuses on each side of the neck. Two research teams have begun work almost simultaneously on electrical control of these "barorecep-tors" with "baropacers" to be implanted like heart pacemakers. At the A.M.A. convention in San Francisco, Dr. Aydin Bilgutay of the University of Minnesota showed a baropacer which picks up pulses of current from two electrodes implanted in the heart and uses those pulses to control electrical signals sent...
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