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SINCE electron microscope techniques have been applied to histology, several workers have confirmed that the blood–air barrier of the lung consists of a capillary endothelium, a basement membrane and an uninterrupted alveolar endothelium. The permeability of this three-layered wall is explained, in the classical physiological literature, solely by a passive physico-chemical mechanism.
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DE GROODT, M., LAGASSE, A. & SEBRUYNS, M. Fine Structure of the Alveolar Wall of the Lung. Nature 181, 1066–1067 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811066a0
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