Disease and the Oxygen Cascade
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"Disease and the Oxygen Cascade" paper defines the series of partial pressures at which oxygen is available at various levels of a living system, and relates the processes involved in the procurement, gaseous exchange, transport, and use of oxygen, to states of disease.... ... ... ... Surfactant in the lungs plays an important role in the oxygen cascade (Hopley, and Schalkwyk, 2006)....