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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829168303321

Titolo

Lung liquids / / sponsored by the CIBA Foundation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North Holland

New York, : American Elsevier, 1976

Amsterdam : , : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North Holland

New York : , : American Elsevier, , 1976

ISBN

9786613693969

9781280783579

1280783575

9780470720202

0470720204

9780470717882

0470717882

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.