Hydraulic conductance of lung endothelial phenotypes and Starling safety factors against edema.

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Recent permeability studies comparing endothelial cell phenotypes derived from alveolar and extra-alveolar vessels have significant implications for interpreting the mechanisms of fluid homeostasis in the intact lung. These studies indicate that confluent monolayers of rat pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells had a hydraulic conductance (L(p)) that was only 5% and a transendothelial flux rate for 72-kDa...

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