Oxygen Transport to Tissue XX, 1998 Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Series, Vol. 454

''In addition to a wide variety of traditional oxygen transport topics, particular areas have been selected for emphasis at the 1997 meeting, which are:

• Molecular and genetic techniques to study oxygen transport in health and disease
• Angiogenesis during hypoxia, ischemia, and development
• Physiological mechanisms of oxygen sensing
• Physiological fluctuations of cerebral blood flow, metabolism and oxygenation
• Near infrared and phsophorescence techniques for the assessment of blood and tissue oxygenation
• Advances in biotechnology of anticoagulants and blood substitutes.

'' (excerpted from the Preface).

25th Anniversary Historical Overview.- Progress in Oxygen Transport Research.- NIRS and NADH.- NIRS Techniques: Brain.- Neuronal Activation.- Arisztid G. B. Kovách Memorial Lecture.- Shock and Oxygen Radicals.- Protection from Injury: Clinical and Experimental Aspects.- Genetic Models: Hypoxia.- Angiogenesis in Hypoxia, Ischemia, and Development.- Oxygen Tension in the Mierocirculation: What Does the Phosphorescence Technique Tell Us?.- Angioarchitecture and Oxygen Diffusion.- Hyperbaric Medicine.- Physiological Mechanisms of Oxygen Sensing.- Myocardial Oxygenation.- Physiological Fluctuations in Brain Tissue pO2 and Perfusion: From Electrodes to MRI.- Tumor Oxygenation.- Oxygen Carriers and Hemorrheology.- Anticoagulation.