Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
The aim of this study is to investigate the steady state gas transfer properties of the lungs. These properties can be derived from excretion-retention (E-R) data of inert tracer gases that are infused intravenously. E = PE/Pv and R = Pa/Pv, where PE, Pa and Pv represent the partial pressures of the tracer gases in mixed expired gas, arterial blood and mixed venous blood, respectively. In this paper, special attention is paid to the effects of tidal breathing on E-R data sets of tracer gases with different blood-gas partition coefficients. To that end, E-R data sets have been simulated with a lung model that takes into account tidal breathing, the morphometric geometry of the airways, diffusion limited gas mixing and gas dissolved in superficial lung tissue. The simulated E-R data sets are compared with E-R data sets obtained from anaesthetized dogs. Both the simulated E-R data sets and most of the in vivo determined E-R data sets are incompatible with a model description of pulmonary gas transfer with parallel placed compartments with different ventilation-perfusion ratios. Concerning the simulated E-R data sets, this incompatibility is due to the large buffering capacity of lung tissue for highly soluble gases in combination with the within-breath partial pressure oscillations in the airways.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0031-6768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
407
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
204-10
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Excretion-retention data of steady state gas exchange in tidal breathing. I. Dependency on the blood-gas partition coefficient.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article