Oxygen Transport to Tissue IX

Methods.- Morphometric Analysis of Sparse Capillary Networks.- A Comparison of the Methods for Assessment of the Heterogeneity in Myocardial Capillary Spacing.- Imaging of Red Blood Cell and Plasma Dispersion in the Brain Cortex.- Determination of Cerebral Cortical Capillary Blood Volume from Mean Transit Time Analysis.- The Microphotometric Determination of the Variability of the O2 Saturation of Erythrocytes Lying within Rouleaux.- Kinetics and Transient Times of Fluorescence Optical Sensors (Optodes) for Blood Gas Analysis (O2, CO2, pH).- A Method for Estimating Contact Time of Red Cells in Lung Capillaries from O2 and CO2 Concentrations in Rebreathing Air in Man.- Quantitative Relations between Gas Exchange Parameters including Contact Time at Rest and during Treadmill Exercise.- A Versatile and Sensitive Method for Measuring Oxygen.- Blood Substitutes.- Critical Oxygen Delivery Levels during Shock following Normoxic and Hyperoxic Haemodilution with Fluorocarbons or Dextran.- Prophylaxis and Treatment of Myocardial Ischaemia by Haemodilution with Fluorocarbon Emulsions.- Emulsified Perfluorochemicals as Physiological Oxygen-transport Fluids: Assessment of a Novel Formulation.- Cerebral Cortical Oxygenation and Perfusion during Progressive Normavolaemic Haemodilution with Hetastarch (Volex) and Fluosol-DA.- Oxygen Transport to Renal Tissue: Effect of Oxygen Carriers.- Highly Polymerized Human Haemoglobin as an Oxygen-carrying Blood Substitute.- Modelling.- Oxygen Boundary Crossing Probabilities.- In vivo Recruitment of Mitochondrial VO2: Test of Current Models using Tissue Data.- A Comparison of a Four Wavelength Analysis and Multicomponent Wave-length Analysis Applied to Determination of Haemoglobin Saturation.- Time Courses of Erythrocytic Oxygenation in Capillaries of the Lung: Lower and Upper Bounds on Red Cell Transit Times.- Diffusion Pathways in Oxygen Supply of Cardiac Muscle.- Simulation of the Point Spread Function for Light in Tissue by a Monte Carlo Technique.- Use of Adair Four-step Kinetics in Mathematical Simulation of Oxygen Transport in the Microcirculation.- Physiology.- Arterial Obstruction Induced by PAF-acether (1-0-alkyl-SNglycero-3-phosphocholine).- Anti-anaphylactic Properties of BN 52021: A Potent Platelet Activating Factor Antagonist.- Role of hypoxia and acetylcholine in the regulation of cerebral blood flow.- Adaptation to Hypoxia.- Changes in the Endoplasmic Reticulum following Exposure to Hypoxia.- Cerebral Microcirculatory Changes during Exposure to Hypoxia.- Metabolic, Ionic and Electrical Activities during and after Incomplete or Complete Cerebral Isthaemia in the Mongolian Gerbil.- Inside a Quantitative Analysis of In Vivo near Infrared Monitoring.- Near-infrared Spectrophotometric Monitoring of Haemoglobin and Cyto-chrome a,a3In Situ.- Simultaneous Measurement of Haemoglobin Oxygenation of Brain and Skeletal Muscle of Rat In Vivo by Near-infrared Spectrophotometry.- Spectroscopic Characteristics of Rat Skeletal and Cardiac Tissues in the Visible and Near-infrared Region.- Non-invasive Near-infrared Measurements of Human Arm Tissues In Vivo.- The Effect of Intracellular Oxygen Concentration on Ventricular Fibrillation in Perfused Rat Heart.- Comparison of Intracellular PO2 and Conditions for Blood-Tissue O2 Transport in Heart and Working Red Skeletal Muscle.- Dynamic Structure of Phospholipid Bilayers on the Path for Oxygen Diffusion in the Ox Lung.- Effects of Temperature on Oxygen Transfer Conductance of Human Red Blood Cells.- Oxygen Tension and Sperm Migration in the Female Bed Bug.- Oxygen Toxicity.- Surfactant in Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity.- Acute Respiratory Failure Induced by Tracheal Instillation of Xanthine Oxidase, its Prevention and Therapy by Exogenous Surfactant Instillation.- Endotoxin Protection against Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity and Plasma Prostaglandin Levels in the Rat.- Survival Time of Rats Exposed to Different High Oxygen Pressures after Administration of Perfluorochemicals.- Effect of Antioxidants on the Biochemical Response in the Oxygen-exposed Rat.- Tumours.- Tumour Blood Flow following Local Ultrasound Heating Computed from Thermal Clearance Curves.- Oxygen Consuming Regions in EMT60/Ro Multicellular Tumour Spheroids Determined by Nonlinear Regression Analysis of Experimental PO2 Profiles.- Oxygen Consumption Rate of Tumour Cells as a Function of their Proliferative Status.- Blood Flow, Vascular Resistance and Oxygen Availability in Malignant Tumours upon Intravenous Flunarizine.- Author index.