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The purpose of this symposium is to compare amongst several organs the functionally important forms of heterogeneity, their anatomical basis, how they compromize the ability of each organ to perform its duties, how heterogeneity can be measured, and how heterogeneity evolves from health to disease.
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Wagner, P.D. (1994). Functional Heterogeneity in the Lungs. In: Hogan, M.C., Mathieu-Costello, O., Poole, D.C., Wagner, P.D. (eds) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVI. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 361. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1875-4_81
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