Gas exchange in disease: Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, and interstitial lung disease

Comprehensive Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 663-697

  Young, Iven H ^a   Bye, Peter T P ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; LUNG DISEASES; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 84861865965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20404603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c090012     Document Type: Article

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