Alveolar flooding at high altitude: Failure of reabsorption?

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 55-59

  Höschele, Sabine ^a   Mairbäurl, Heimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SURFACTANT; WATER;

ALTITUDE; CELL CULTURE; DIFFUSION; EDEMA; FILTRATION; FLUID BALANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; ION TRANSPORT; LUNG; LUNG FLUID; MOUNTAINEERING; REVIEW; SODIUM ABSORPTION; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

EID: 0037396908     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/nips.01421.2002     Document Type: Review

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