The Churchill–Cope reflex is a reflex in which distension of the pulmonary vascular bed, as occurs in pulmonary edema, causes an increase in respiratory rate ( tachypnoea) by stimulation of the juxtacapillary (J) receptors.
It was described in 1929 by Edward Delos Churchill and Oliver Cope. [1]
The Churchill–Cope reflex is a reflex in which distension of the pulmonary vascular bed, as occurs in pulmonary edema, causes an increase in respiratory rate ( tachypnoea) by stimulation of the juxtacapillary (J) receptors.
It was described in 1929 by Edward Delos Churchill and Oliver Cope. [1]