Tissue fluid pressures: From basic research tools to clinical applications

• Main Authors: Alan R Hargens, Wayne H Akeson, Scott J Mubarak, Charles A Owen, David H Gershuni, Steven R Garfin, Richard L Lieber, Larry A Danzig, Michael J Botte, Richard H Gelberman
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Antarctic; Scripps; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1078.2977; http://muscle.ucsd.edu/More_HTML/papers/pdf/Hargens_JOR_1989.pdf

Summary: The two basic research tools developed to measure tissue fluid pressure (wick catheter) and osmotic pressure (colloid osmometer) have undergone extensive validation and refinement over the past 20 years. Using these techniques, basic science investigations were undertaken of edema in Amazon...