Iron, oxygen, and the pulmonary circulation.
The human pulmonary vasculature vasoconstricts in response to a reduction in alveolar oxygen tension, a phenomenon termed hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV). This review describes the time course of this behavior, which occurs in distinct phases, and then explores the importance for HPV of the...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physiological Society
2015
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