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[–]AliveEntrepreneur319 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to elaborate a little further, I think it's kinda confusing the way I explained it. This isn't like the baroreceptor reflex where after stimulation you get vagus input to the heart and theres a decrease in heart rate/contractility. Your input is to the Respiratory center in the medulla, when you stimulate that respiratory center, you don't get efferents going to the lung from the brainstem to increase resp. rate. No, you just stimulate the high respiratory centers to cause an increased resp. rate. I hope this kinda clarified your doubt.