The carotid sinus is compressed to stimulate the vagal reflex in order to achieve a pressure-lowering effect.
With cough, smooth muscle movement is incorporated into the actual cough reflex in order to move the irritant or blockage up the airway and out.
Your parents will most likely take you to the doctor, and you will be tested, which means a very long cotton swab will be shoved in your mouth towards your throat (talk about gag reflex) in order to get a sample for testing.
Every clinician should be aware of the neonate's reflexes in order to gain the optimal end-expiratory volume (EEV), even more in case of prematurity.
Scientists believe that itch, and the accompanying scratch reflex, evolved in order to protect us from insects and clinging plant toxins — from such dangers as malaria, yellow fever, and dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes; from tularemia, river blindness, and sleeping sickness, transmitted by flies; from typhus-bearing lice, plague-bearing fleas, and poisonous spiders.
The tail immersion test is mainly supported by a spinal reflex arc, thus, in order to have a more integrated behaviour, we challenged the mice on a dynamic cold plate (Yalcin et al, 2009).
This catheter, which allowed one to inject additional anaesthesia (approximately 50 mg kg−1 every hour) to suppress voluntary movement and whisker tremors but maintain corneal reflex, was positioned in order to let the blood flow freely to the left lower limb muscles.
Patellar and Achilles reflexes were tested in order to document neurological deficits and was recorded as visible or missing [ 10, 11].
These vagal airway reflexes may be protective in order to avoid distal lung exposure to orally or inhaled noxious agents.30 In a dog model, Mansfield and colleagues31 first investigated this reflex.
Use your reflexes and visual precision in order to help in daily situations (e.g., catching a falling box of office supplies; dodging people in hallways, Taking a drink from the water fountain without getting wet).
All patients had undergone MRI scans of the brain and trigeminal reflex testing [4, 6, 10] in order to identify with certainty even patients with typical presentation but a possibly secondary origin, including idiopathic sensory trigeminal neuropathy and nerve trauma [14].
