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Record Nr.

UNINA9910643375403321

Titolo

Ciba Foundation Symposium [[electronic resource] ] : development of the lung / / edited by A.V.S. de Reuck and Ruth Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : J. & A. Churchill, 1967

ISBN

1-280-76869-X

9786613679468

0-470-71947-8

0-470-71702-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (466 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

De ReuckAnthony V. S

PorterRuth

Disciplina

600

Soggetti

Lungs

Respiration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of the Symposium on Development of the Lung, held Nov. 1-3, 1965.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

DEVELOPMENT OF THE LUNG; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; Gas transport from the external environment to the cell; Discussion; Variation of chemical potential with temperature*; Some implications of the dynamics of gas transfer in water-breathing dogs; Discussion; Evolution between air and water; Discussion; Quantitative aspects of vertebrate gas exchange; Discussion; The embryology of the lung; Discussion; Postnatal growth of the lung and pulmonary gas-exchange capacity; Discussion; A morphological contribution to the development of the human lung: observations in the non-retracted lung

General DiscussionThe alveolar lining layer; Discussion; Physiological consequences of the apposition of blood and gas in the lung; Discussion; The alveolar lining layer; Discussion; General Discussion; Comparative properties of the lungs and the placenta: a graphical analysis of placental gas exchange; Discussion; The oxygen supply of the foetus; Discussion; Carriage of oxygen in the blood of the foetus; Discussion; Oxygen consumption of the placenta and foetal membranes in the sheep; Discussion; General Discussion; Carbon



monoxide and oxygen saturation; Oxygen consumption and the placenta

Surface-active lipoproteinlnitiation of respiration; Discussion; Pulmonary circulation in the foetus and the newborn; Discussion; Uptake of liquid from the lungs at the start of breathing; Group Discussion; Discussion; Surfactant and lung collapse; Observations of homoeostatic regulation; Nature of homoeostatic regulation; Evolution of homoeostatic regulation; Transport across membranes; Chairman's closing  remarks; Author Index; Subject Index