The August Krogh Institute: Capillaries and beyond

August Krogh *

Schack August Steenberg Krogh was born in Grenaa, Jutland. His ancestors had emigrated from Holstein and Schleswig, where his father's family had settled as small farmers three hundred years earlier. Krogh's father was a brewer, though he had been trained as a shipbuilder. Ships and the sea were some of Krogh's unceasing interests. Krogh, who was the oldest of six brothers and sisters, had alre...

The August Krogh principle applies to plants.

The Krogh principle refers to the use of a large number of animals to study the large number of physiological problems, rather than limiting study to a particular organism for all problems. There may be organisms that are more suited to study of a particular problem than others. This same principle applies to plants. The authors are concerned with the recent trend in plant biology of using A...

The black box, the creature from the Black Lagoon, August Krogh, and the dominant animal.

An organism is a complex chemical system that can respond to its environment, reproduce, grow, and develop in form and function, and maintain some measure of homeostasis. Nonetheless, it is a mistake to reduce the study of organisms to the level of chemistry, physics, or molecular biology. The system is highly integrated, and the properties of intact organisms are what determine their fitness i...

Freshwater fish gill ion transport: August Krogh to morpholinos and microprobes.

August Krogh proposed that freshwater fishes (and other freshwater animals) maintain body NaCl homoeostasis by extracting these ions from the environment via separate Na(+) /NH(4)(+) and Cl(-) /HCO(3)(-) exchangers in the gill epithelium. Subsequent data from other laboratories suggested that Na(+) uptake was more probably coupled to H(+) secretion via a vesicular proton pump (V-ATPase) electri...

WORLD INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY August 16 , 1999