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Science 30 January 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3344, pp. 269 - 270
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3344.269
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Partial Pressure of Ammonia in Alveolar Air

JOHN A. JACQUEZ 1, J. WILLIAM POPPELL 2, and RUDOLPH JELTSCH 2

1 Division of Experimental Chemotherapy, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York
2 Division of Experimental Surgery and Physiology and Andre and Bella Meyer Physiology Laboratories, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York

The partial pressure of ammonia in alveolar air was measured and found to be the same (within the limits of experimental error) as the calculated partial pressure of ammonia in arterial plasma. It is likely that ammonia is equilibrated between alveolar air and the blood during its passage through the pulmonary capillaries.


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