Both anemia and carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning can cause severe hypoxia, yet neither condition results in a major stimulation of breathing. Why is this so?
A) The peripheral chemoreceptors do not respond to low O2 content.
B) Anemia and CO poisoning depresses the peripheral chemoreceptors.
C) Anemia and CO poisoning depresses the central chemoreceptors.
D) Anemia and CO cause stagnant hypoxia, not hypoxemia.
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