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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144662303321

Titolo

Lung liquids / / sponsored by the CIBA Foundation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North Holland

New York : , : American Elsevier, , 1976

ISBN

1-280-78357-5

9786613693969

0-470-72020-4

0-470-71788-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 38 (new ser.)

Disciplina

612/.2

Soggetti

Lungs

Body fluids

Biological transport

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 22-24 April 1975."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Lung Liquids; Contents; Introduction: goals of the meeting; Ultrastructural basis for alveolar-capillary permeability to protein; Discussion; Permeability of pulmonary vascular endothelium; Discussion; The permeability of lung capillary and alveolar walls as determinants of liquid movements in the lung; Discussion; Interstitial fluid and transcapillary fluid balance in the lung; Discussion; Dynamics of subatmospheric pressure in the pulmonary interstitial fluid; Discussion; Effect of lung inflation on alveolar permeability to solutes; Discussion; General Discussion I

Comparative aspects of salt and water transport across lung epithelium Discussion; Transport of ions and water across the epithelium of fish gills; Discussion; Coupling of water to solute movement in isolated gastric mucosa; Discussion; Ion transport across amphibian lung; Discussion; Ion transport and water flow in the mammalian lung; Discussion; Carbonate dehydratase (carbonic anhydrase) and the fetal lung; Discussion; Lung carbonate dehydratase (carbonic anhydrase), CO2 stores and CO2 transport; Discussion; General Discussion II; Mechanism of alveolar flooding in acute pulmonary oedema



Discussion Intracellular and subcellular oedema and dehydration; Discussion; General Discussion III; Clinical disorders of lung liquid; Discussion; Closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index