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Alveolar-Capillary Gas Transfer in Lungs: Development of Concepts and Current State

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Book cover Oxygen Transport to Tissue XV

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 345))

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In the lungs, the alveolar/capillary gas transfer is an intermediate step in gas transport, interposed between ventilation and pulmonary blood flow. A major difficulty in analysing pulmonary gas exchange in terms of ventilation, gas/blood transfer and perfusion is due to the fact that the lung is highly inhomogeneous with respect to these processes and their combination. Moreover, the alveolar-capillary transfer involves diffusion across heterogeneous media and chemical reactions, and in the case of O2the binding to hemoglobin.

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Piiper, J. (1994). Alveolar-Capillary Gas Transfer in Lungs: Development of Concepts and Current State. In: Vaupel, P., Zander, R., Bruley, D.F. (eds) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XV. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 345. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2468-7_2

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