Krogh, August

Krogh, August (1874-1949) Danish physiologist discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen and was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920. 

Biomembrane Research Centre, August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen,... 

E. M. P. Widmark, Physiological Papers Dedicated to Professor August Krogh, Levin Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926. 

Biswas S, Ahuja R, Ray A, Choliy Y, Krogh-Jespersen K, Brookhart M, Goldman AS (2008) Abstracts of papers, 236th ACS national meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 17-21 August 2008, INOR-125... 

Krebs, H.A. (1975). The August Krogh Principle For many problems there is an animal on which it can be most conveniently studied. J. Exp. Zool. 194 221-226. 

Johansen, K. (1987). The August Krogh Lecture The world as a laboratory—Physiological insights from nature s experiments. In Advances in Physiological Research, pp. 377-396, ed. H. McLennan, J.R. Ledsome, C.H.S. McIntosh, and D.R. Jones, New York Plenum Press. 

The basic assumption for all theoretical oxygen tension calculations was introduced by August Krogh. The organs, especially the muscles, are assumed to be composed of numerous, equal tissue cylinders with concentric capillaries. This rough assumption does not cover blood flow differences within the branches of the capillary bed which can be microscopically observed. 

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