Very high pressures are required to cause stress failure of pulmonary capillaries in Thoroughbred racehorses

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1584-1592

  Birks, Eric K ^b   Mathieu Costello, Odile ^b   Fu, Zhenxing ^b   Tyler, Walter S ^b   West, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

blood gas barrier; capillary wall stress; pulmonary hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXERCISE; HORSE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFERENCE VALUE;

EID: 0030912264     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.82.5.1584     Document Type: Article

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