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It has been several hours since you last ate. Walking past a bakery, you catch a whiff of freshly baked bread. What type of reflex is triggered, and what is the result

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The long reflexes are activated by the smell of food and the sense of starvation due to hours of not feeding. It starts with a sensory neuron providing the medulla oblongata with a signal to stimulate cells in the abdomen to start secreting digestive juices in readiness for arriving food.

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