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Author(s) -
D. Burke,
M. Chapman,
S. J. Chen,
S. Deutscher,
W. Folk,
K. Gates,
M. Hannink,
D. Lubahn,
T. Mawhinney,
S. Peck,
M. Petris,
C. Phillips,
T. Quinn,
G.,
Stacey,
L. Sumner,
J. Tanner,
J. Thelen,
P. Tipton,
S. Van,
Doren,
G. Weisman,
S. Zhang,
X. Zou,
P. Cornish,
A. Heese,
G. King,
A. Koo,
M. Martin,
B. Peculis,
M. Siegel,
T. White,
J. Polacco,
D. Randall,
L. Randall,
R. M. Roberts,
F. Schmidt,
K. Sharma,
G. Sun,
R. Tsika,
J. Wall
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1954.tb85313.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science
lung of the dog has been subjected to various mixtures of oxygen in nitrogen. The changes in gas exchange with unilateral hypoxia have been presented and discussed. On the basis of certain assumptions, with the use of data .obtained in these experiments and blood dissociation curves for oxygen and carbon dioxide, the blood flow through each lung has been estimated. When the right lung is maintained on 30% strength oxygen and the left lung is made hypoxic, there is a local vasoconstriction in the latter which varies with the degree of unilateral hypoxia. With the left lung breathing nitrogen, 11 % of the pulmonary flow goes .through this lung in contrast to control values of 40%. If on the other hand the right lung is maintained on air, the hypoxic left lung will constrict less for a given alveolar partial pressure of oxygen.