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The transport and exchange of oxygen in the lung can be viewed conceptually as serial processes. Accordingly, the conductance for the combined transport and exchange process, G c , represents the reciprocal sum of separate conductances for intrapulmonary mixing, G mix , and for alveolar capillary exchange, D L [9]. Although G mix and D L are lumped-parameter macroscale conductances, they must account implicitly for transport and exchange complexities at the microscale (i.e. alveolar duct and alveolar capillary) level.
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Federspiel, W.J. (1990). Nonclassical Features of Gas Transport and Exchange at the Alveolar Level. In: Epstein, M.A.F., Ligas, J.R. (eds) Respiratory Biomechanics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3452-4_11
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