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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

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

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
  2. Carbon Dioxide and pH Regulation of Basic Metabolic Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Regulation by Carbon Dioxide of Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism in Isolated Perfused Tissue

      • William J. Longmore, Amy M. Liang, Michael L. McDaniel
      Pages 15-23
  3. Carbon Dioxide and pH Regulation of Cellular Functions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Carbon Dioxide Effects on Nerve Cell Function

      • David O. Carpenter, John H. Hubbard, Donald R. Humphrey, Harry K. Thompson, Wade H. Marshall
      Pages 49-62
    3. Carbon Dioxide Action on Neuronal Membranes

      • Arthur M. Brown
      Pages 81-86
    4. Carbon Dioxide in Developmental Processes

      • John D. Biggers, Anthony R. Bellvé
      Pages 87-106
    5. Carbon Dioxide, Respiratory Regulation, and Chronobiology

      • Michael Smolensky, Franz Halberg, Alain Reinberg, Maurice Stupfel
      Pages 118-124
  4. Carbon Dioxide and pH Effect on Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Transport

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. The Influence of pH and Oxygen on the Erythrocyte Content of 2,3-Diphosphoglycerate

      • Peter R. B. Caldwell, Ernst R. Jaffé, Ronald L. Nagel
      Pages 132-137
    3. Carbon Dioxide Transport

      • John W. Severinghaus
      Pages 138-143
    4. Pco2 pH and Body Temperature

      • Hermann Rahn
      Pages 152-162

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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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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