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Carbon Dioxide and Metabolic Regulations

Satellite Symposium of the XXV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHYSIOLOGY, July 20 – 21 – 22, 1971 International Conference Monte-Carlo, Monaco

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1974

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Part of the book series: Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine (TEPHY)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Carbon Dioxide and pH Regulation of Basic Metabolic Processes

  2. Carbon Dioxide and pH Regulation of Cellular Functions

  3. Carbon Dioxide and pH Effect on Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Transport

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About this book

Wallace O. Fenn (1893-1971) The proceedings of the satellite sym­ encompass the whole of physiology. His con­ posium of the XXV International Congress tributions over 50 years covered four main of Physiology on "C0 and Metabolic eras in the development of physiology: 2 Regulations" are dedicated to Wallace muscle, electrolyte, respiratory, and hyper­ Osgood Fenn. Dr. Fenn had agreed to be baric study. honorary conference chairman of this meet­ The study of muscle contraction started ing, but was unable to attend because of the in 1922 when Fenn became the first American to work in A. V. Hill's laboratory. Fenn illness from which he died two months later concluded this work by saying, " ... There on September 20, 1971. Wallace O. Fenn was born of an old is a fairly good quantitative relation between New England family in Lanesboro, Massa­ the heat production of muscles and the work chusetts on August 27, 1893. His father was which they perform; and a muscle which does dean of the Divinity School at Harvard ~ork liberates, ipso facto, an extra supply of University. It was at Harvard that Fenn energy which does not appear in an isometric received his A.B. (1914) and his M.S. (1916). contraction." (Fenn [1923]). A. V. Hill referred to this as the "Fenn effect," and so He then started his Ph.D. thesis there under the plant physiologist W. J. V. Osterhout, it has been known ever since.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Gabriel Nahas

  • Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, USA

    Karl E. Schaefer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Carbon Dioxide and Metabolic Regulations

  • Book Subtitle: Satellite Symposium of the XXV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHYSIOLOGY, July 20 – 21 – 22, 1971 International Conference Monte-Carlo, Monaco

  • Editors: Gabriel Nahas, Karl E. Schaefer

  • Series Title: Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9831-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9833-5Published: 08 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-9831-1Published: 07 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-6048

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVI, 372

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general

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