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Comparative permeability of canine visceral and parietal pleura

D K Payne1, G T Kinasewitz, E Gonzalez

  • 1Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 71130-3932.

Journal of Applied Physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
|December 1, 1988
PubMed

Keywords:
pleural mesotheliumcanine physiologysolute fluxmembrane transport

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