Surfactant regulates pulmonary fluid balance in reptiles

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 6 42-6, 1997, Pages

  Orgeig, Sandra ^a   Smits, Allan W ^b,c   Daniels, Christopher B ^a   Herman, Jay K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary filtration; Inulin clearance; Lizard; Pulmonary edema; Turtle

Indexed keywords

INULIN; LUNG SURFACTANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID BALANCE; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG ALVEOLUS SURFACE TENSION; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE;

EID: 0031413781     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.6.r2013     Document Type: Article

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