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Theory of hemoglobin facilitated oxygen transport

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The transport of oxygen in a hemoglobin-saturated medium is theoretically investigated using classical transport theory. It is found that all the chemical complexes can be expressed as a single function of oxygen pressure. A potential difference together with apH shift is predicted to occur across the medium.

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  1. Committee on Mathematical Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    M. A. Fox & H. D. Landahl

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  1. M. A. Fox
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This research was supported by the United States Public Health Service Training Grant No. 5-T1-GM-833 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

This research was supported by a United States Public Health Service Research Career Program Award 5-K6-GM-18,420 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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Fox, M.A., Landahl, H.D. Theory of hemoglobin facilitated oxygen transport. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 27 (Suppl 1), 183–190 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02477275

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