Lung liquids / sponsored by the CIBA Foundation.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Symposium on Lung Liquids (1975 : London, England)

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 38.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 38 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lungs--Congresses.

Lungs.

Body fluids--Congresses.

Body fluids.

Biological transport--Congresses.

Biological transport.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North Holland ; New York : American Elsevier, 1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613693969

9781280783579

1280783575

9780470720202

0470720204

9780470717882

0470717882

OCLC:

797918351