 R. H. Adamson

R. H. Adamson is an author of experimental research on the permeability of the microvascular wall. The 2004 study Oncotic pressures opposing filtration across non-fenestrated rat microvessels by R. H. Adamson and others lists an affiliation in human physiology at the University of California, Davis. It combined microvessel measurements, confocal microscopy, electron microscopy and a hydrodynamic model to investigate where oncotic pressure acts across the filtration barrier.^[ref]

The important distinction was between bulk interstitial fluid and the much smaller region beside the endothelial glycocalyx. Matching bulk albumin concentrations did not remove all effective opposition to filtration. Linking the physiological measurements to the wall's microscopic structure helped explain this result and refined the interpretation of exchange in a capillary bed. The author's published initials are retained here.