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Gas transport through the living cerebral cortex has been reported by Gotoh et al. (1961) to be faster than that in dead cortex. This enhancement was attributed by them to a stirring effect due to the vasomotor action of the microvasculature in the tissue whereby gas molecules could be transported to far distant areas. At the ex vivo level, facilitation of oxygen gas transport across removed living cortical tissues was observed by Longmuir and Bourke (1960), who obtained values which were approximately 3-fold higher than those through free water. MacDougall and McCabe (1967) also demonstrated a high but very wide range of values for the oxygen diffusion coefficient in removed tissues.
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Tomita, M. et al. (1999). Oxygen and Hydrogen Gas Transport Through Living C6 Cell Suspensions is Faster than that in Dead Cells. In: Eke, A., Delpy, D.T. (eds) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXI. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 471. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4717-4_85
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