Elevation of Tissue PO2 with Improvement of Tissue Perfusion by Topically Applied CO2
- 1 January 1988
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
- Vol. 222, 637-645
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9510-6_79
Abstract
Exposure of skin to CO2 causes local hyperaemia and increases the number and diameter of functioning cutaneous capillaries (Stein and Weinstein, 1942; Kowarschik, 1948; Disi, 1958; Witzleb, 1962). Lipid-soluble CO2 is absorbable into the body through the skin, so that the dissolved CO2 acts as a vasodilator of dermal capillaries (McClellan, 1963).This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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