Possible Role of Alveolar Surfactants in the Uptake of Inhaled Gases

Details Possible Role of Alveolar Surfactants in the Uptake of Inhaled Gases Possible Role of Alveolar Surfactants in the Uptake of Inhaled Gases

Sep 1967

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Nature, Volume 215, Issue 5108, pp. 1400-1402 (1967).

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MOST inhaled anaesthetic gases and many other physiologically important gases are non-polar and have very poor solubility in highly polar water. At a temperature of 37° C there is a water vapour pressure in the alveolar area of 47 mm mercury, which implies the presence of a water layer on the alveolar membrane. The polarity of this water forms a barrier to the migration of non-polar anaesthetic and other non-polar gases through the alveolar membrane.

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