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More than a hundred years ago [1859] Claude Bernard (quoted in [363]) recognized the importance of colloids for maintaining a normal BV. The classic work of Starling [1379] at the turn of the century laid the cornerstone for our ideas about oncotic pressure. In general his views are still valid today; he realized that proteins are also able to pass the capillary endothelia, but he assumed that the amount was negligible. Today we know that normal capillaries are also permeable to greater or smaller amounts of proteins according to regional differences, but that at the same time comparable quantities reach the circulation by way of the lymphatic system [1044].
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Gruber, U.F. (1969). Colloid Osmotic Pressure, Filtration, Interstitial Pressure. In: Blood Replacement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49790-2_15
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