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Effects of body posture and tidal volume on inter- and intraregional ventilation distribution in healthy men

Mikael Grönkvist1, Eddie Bergsten, Per M Gustafsson

  • 1Swedish Defense Research Agency, Department of Defense Medicine, S-580 13 Linköping, Sweden. mikgro@foi.se

Journal of Applied Physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
|January 18, 2002
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