19 Flashcards
Two forms that oxygen is carried around the blood in
- dissolved O2
- bound to haemoglobin in RBCs
Describe oxygens ability to dissolve at physiological partial pressure
Oxygen dissolves poorly, due to its low solubility at physiological partial pressure
How much oxygen is dissolved per litre of blood.. how much oxygen do we need per minute ?
- only about 3ml of 02 per litre of blood, so about 15ml total.. we need about 250ml/min
O2 forms an ____ ______ combination with Hb to give _________
Easily reversible
Oxyhaemoglobin
What does O2 binding to Hb depend on?
PO2
Does haemoglboin contribute to the presssure gradient?
Yes - as it moves from alveoli into pulmonary capillary it binds to haemoglobin reducing the partial pressure in the pulmonary capillary - this creates a larger gradient and thus more can move from alveoli to capillary
- thus without haemoglobin you’d only have 3ml of oxygen in your blood
Oxygen- haemoglobin saturation curve
Percentage of heme units bound with oxygen - haemoglobin satuaration
Relationship between haemoglobin structure and oxygen binding results is a ______ curve
Singmoidal
Healthy indivaisual w it’ll have a haemoglobin concentration of…
98% (in arterial system)
As haemoglobin moves around body and gives oxygen to surrounding tissues what happens to PO2
It reduces
What is the p50
- indication of the affectingly of Haeme for oxygen
Why is the singmaiodal shape of the curve an advantage - upper flat part if the curve
- moderate changes in PO2 around the normal value (~100mmHg) have only small effects on the % satuatruaion and therefore the amount of O2 carried by the arterial blood… i.e some reserve capacity (buffer zone that can cope with a massive reduction in PO2)
Sigmoindal shape of the curve advantage - steep part of the curve at lower PO2
- helps with loading of Hb in lungs AND unloading of O2 in the tissues (makes it easier to unload to working tissue- only needs small drop in PO2 to release oxygen - more pronounced during exercise)
- small changes in PO2 results in large changes in amount of O2 bound to haemoglobin
What happens if u increase / decrease the affinity of Hb for O2 - BOHR EFFECT
Curve shirts left if u increase affinity ( oxyhemoglobin saturation increases)
Right if u decrease ( oxyhaemoglobin satuaration decreases)
- this is gaged by the p50
What is the Bohr effect
The haemoglobin binding curve can be shifted
How do u reduce O2 affinity and what happens to the graph
- lower plasma pH
- higher temperature
- shift to the right
Carbon dioxide transport
Transport of O2 and CO2 in lungs and peripheral tissues - red blood cell
From the right bottom:
CO2 comes out of the tissues and into the plasma , some is dissolved, majority enters red blood cell, 23% will bind to haemoglobin, majority reacts with water to form carbonic acid which then dissociates into bicarbonate and hydrogen
Blood then travels back up to the lungs into Plomonary circulation - the dissolved CO2 diffuses back into alveolar (do to the partial pressure gradient) bicarbonate comes back into the red blood cell, combined with hydrogen ions forming carbonacid to then form a water and CO2, gradient then drives CO2 back into alveoli
Red blood cell now has no CO2 so is now increadbly attracted to the O2, oxygen moves into RBC
Control of breathing
Carbon dioxide receptors are the most important in determineing…
Respiratory activity
How do stretch receptors play a role in breahting
- as the lungs inflate of deflate, they send afferent input from the stretch receptor
- the brain then sends efferent output preventing them for stretching too far either way
