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Investigation of the mechanism underlying the physiologic action of artificial closed pneumothorax

Communication II. Pulmonary biomechanics in artificial closed pneumothorax

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Short-term experiments were performed on cats and prolonged ones on dogs. It was established that in “unstrained” experimentally-induced closed pneumothorax intensive respiratory movements were performed by the lungs. Pneumothorax causes compensatory expansion of the thorax by reflex mechanism which acts from interoceptors of the pleura and lungs on the tone of the respiratory muscles.

Reflex regulation of the average volume of the thorax and the ratio of the volume of the thorax to that of the lungs is postulated.

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  1. D. A. Kocherga
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Laboratory of General Physiology, Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology (Director-Active Member Acad. Med. Sci. USSR V. N. Chernigovskii), Acad. Med. Sci. and Department of Human and Animal Physiology (Director-Assistant Professor D. A. Kocherga), Chernovitskii State University

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Kocherga, D.A. Investigation of the mechanism underlying the physiologic action of artificial closed pneumothorax. Bull Exp Biol Med 45, 26–31 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00785969

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