Role of the fragility of the pulmonary blood-gas barrier in the evolution of the pulmonary circulation

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  West, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme exercise; Pulmonary capillary; Pulmonary vascular pressures; Stress failure; Type IV collagen

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; BIRD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CROCODILE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; EXERCISE INTENSITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FISH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG PRESSURE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOGENESIS; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY BLOOD GAS BARRIER; REPTILE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; STRESS; THUNNUS ALALUNGA; VARANUS EXANTHEMATICUS; VASCULAR FRAGILITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLOOD-AIR BARRIER; CAPILLARIES; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

EID: 84873292587     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00444.2012     Document Type: Review

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