What is the name of the negative feedback reflex associated with the termination of inspiration?

a. Carotid sinus
b. Head's paradoxical
c. Hering-Breuer
d. Vagovagal


ANS: C
Pulmonary stretch receptors progressively discharge during lung inflation and are linked to inhi-bition of further inflation. This is a type of negative feedback known as the inflation reflex or the Hering-Breuer inflation reflex.

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