Fig. 2.
Simplified representation of a homeostatic regulatory system. Several components shown in Fig. 1 are combined in this representation. The reader should refer to Table 1 to find correspondence between components of physiologically significant homeostatic regulatory systems and this simplified representation. For example, chemosensors in the carotid bodies and aortic body are “sensors,” the brain stem is the “control center,” and the diaphragm and other respiratory muscles are “effectors” in the homeostatic regulatory system for arterial Po2.