“…Among the primary reflex responses to carotid body chemoreceptor stimulation in the dog are hyperpnoea, bradycardia due mainly to increased vagal tone, and systemic vasoconstriction due entirely to increased sympathetic tone (Daly & Scott, 1958;Bernthal, Motley, Schwind & Weeks, 1945). In spontaneously breathing dogs the primary bradycardia and vasoconstriction may be masked by secondary effects of the increase in pulmonary ventilation (Daly & Scott, 1962, 1963. A similar situation is found in the cat (Scott, 1966) and in the rabbit (Korner & Edwards, 1960).…”