Publication Date:
1982-10-22
Description:
Direct measurements of capillary transit times in dog lungs were made by using in vivo television microscopy. Mean transit times were unexpectedly long. As pulmonary artery pressures were raised, transit times decreased, suggesting that the normally existing hydrostatic pressure gradient in the lung causes a vertical distribution of transit times. The more rapid transit times approached the minimum time required for complete oxygenation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wagner, W W Jr -- Latham, L P -- Gillespie, M N -- Guenther, J P -- Capen, R L -- HL-07171/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL-14985/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Oct 22;218(4570):379-81.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7123237" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anoxia/physiopathology
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Blood Flow Velocity
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Blood Pressure
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Capillaries
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Dogs
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Lung/*blood supply
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Microscopy/methods
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Rheology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
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