Hemoglobin O2 saturation curve at varied levels of PCO2 and pH.
Description
The program calculates Hb saturation with O2 at each PO2 from 0 to 100 mmHg, and Hb saturations with CO2 over the same range of PCO2s, both at differing background levels of pH. Background DPG is normally about 4.65 mM and temperature is 37.5C. The P50 for Hb-O2 saturation is 26 mmHg when RBC pH is 7.4 and PCO2 is 40 mmHg. The Hb-O2 saturation curves show the Bohr effect: raising PCO2 or lowering pH reduces the affinity of Hb for O2. HbCO2 saturation curves show the Haldane effect: raising PO2 reduces Hb affinity for CO2. The model is within about 1% accuracy through the physiological range of PO2s above 20 mmHg, but overestimates saturation at lower PO2s. Solutions are steady-state, calculated algebraically, assuming instantaneous binding. See Frauenfelder for rebinding rates on flash photolysis. Parameters are from Dash and Bassingthwaighte 2004, 2010; the latter publication corrects typographical errors introduced into the 2004 paper that was published without galley proofs being sent to the authors.
Equations
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(Primary) Dash RK and Bassingthwaighte JB. Erratum to: Blood HbO2 and HbCO2 dissociation curves at varied O2, CO2, pH, 2,3-DPG and Temperature Levels. Ann Biomed Eng 38(4): 1683-1701, 2010.
Adair GS: The hemoglobin system. VI. The oxygen dissociation curve of hemoglobin. J Biol Chem 63: 529-545, 1925. Hill AV:The possible effects of the aggregation of the molecules of haemoglobin on its dissociation curves. J Physiol 40: iv-vii, 1910 Hill R:Oxygen dissociation curves of muscle hemoglobin. Proc Roy Soc Lond B 120: 472-480, 1936. Roughton FJW, Deland EC, Kernohan JC, and Severinghaus JW: Some recent studies of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve of human blood under physiological conditions and the fitting of the Adair equation to the standard curve. In: Oxygen Affinity of Hemoglobin and Red Cell Acid Base Status. Proceedings of the Alfred Benzon Symposium IV Held at the Premises of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen 17-22 May, 1971, edited by Rorth M and Astrup P. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1972, p. 73-81. Winslow RM, Swenberg M-L, Berger RL, Shrager RI, Luzzana M, Samaja M,and Rossi-Bernardi L: Oxygen equilibrium curve of normal human blood and its evaluation by Adair's equation. J Biol Chem 252: 2331-2337, 1977.
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