Breathing through skin in a newborn mammal

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6721, 1999, Pages 660-

  Mortola, J P ^a   Frappell, P B ^b   Woolley, P A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING; CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAS EXCHANGE; LETTER; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG VOLUME; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY CONSTITUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMANS; LUNG; MARSUPIALIA; OXYGEN; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; SKIN;

EID: 0033602193     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17713     Document Type: Article

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