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It now seems settled that acute hypoxia elicits pulmonary vasoconstriction and that the predominant site of constriction is the small muscular pulmonary artery1–3. What remains to be resolved is how this vasoconstriction comes about4.
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Fishman, A.P. (1977). The Sensing of Oxygen Tension in the Pulmonary Circulation. In: Reivich, M., Coburn, R., Lahiri, S., Chance, B. (eds) Tissue Hypoxia and Ischemia. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 78. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9035-4_11
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