“…Significant experimental work has been done in the field of intestinal oedema (Moore-Olufemi et al, 2005;Uray et al, 2006Uray et al, , 2007Cox et al, 2008;Moore-Olufemi et al, 2009). Theoretical work has been done on volume regulation, fluid balance and fluid transport in the interstitium (Taylor et al, 1990;Gyenge et al, 1999;Dongaonkar et al, 2008Dongaonkar et al, , 2009, and some oedema models have been developed for other organs (Wiener et al, 1983;Hempling & Katz, 1989;Nagashima et al, 1990). However, these models neglect one or more factors, that are important for modelling oedema in the intestine.…”