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When the bronchial tree relaxes, more oxygen is taken into the body and more carbon dioxide is expelled from the body.

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Q: How is breathing affected if smooth muscle of bronchial trees relax?
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How is breathing affected if smooth muscle of the bronchial contracts?

When the smooth muscle of the bronchial tree contracts it creates a high resistance to the air flow into the lungs. Breathing is affected since the balance of oxygen and carbon monoxide is off, causing a higher respiration rate.


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What type of muscle tissue is involuntary?

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How is breathing affected if the smooth muscle of the bronchial tree relaxes?

Smooth muscle in the lung encircles bronchiolar tubular passages that lead to the alveoli (you would need a microscope to see this, by the way). Constriction of the muscle would close the diameter of the bronchiolar tubes and thus create a very high resistance to airflow during inspiration to the alveoli downstream of that bronchiolar passage. Airflow would be directed to bronchiolar tubes whose diameters were enlarged because the smooth muscle is (more) relaxed. The rate of respiration (what you call breathing) is affected by a balance of oxygenation and carbon dioxide. it si the level of carbon dioxide that actually controls respiration rate (it is sensed and controlled by the nervous system). If smooth muscle is relaxed, more carbon dioxide is probably expired from the body (as well as oxygen coming in). With a reduced level of blood carbon dioxide, the autonomic nervous system would not demand a higher respiration rate. And so the person would have a lower respiration rate...fewer breaths per unit time (minute). Thus smooth muscle relaxation likely leads to a lowered breathing rate.


What small structures located within the bronchial tree are composed primarily of smooth muscle?

Bronchioles are smaller tube divisions of bronchi. Walls of bronchioles contain smooth muscle and no cartilage. This helps in contraction and relaxation which allows the flow of air to alveoli.


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perhaps you mean Salmeterol which is a long acting B2 adrenergic used for Asthma because of its vasodilatory effect on bronchial smooth muscle


What is the smooth muscle that's key to breathing?

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Is 'the diaphragm' a voluntary muscle?

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Is an ulcer a cardiac muscle or a smooth muscle?

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