Respiratory Physiology - Hemoglobin, Control of Respiration, Dead Space, Spirometry, Effects of High Altitude on Humans, Pulmonary Surfactant (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Hemoglobin, Control of respiration, Dead space, Spirometry, Effects of high altitude on humans, Pulmonary surfactant, Deep water blackout, 2,3-Bisphosphoglyceric acid, Oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve, Shallow water blackout, Arterial blood gas, Lung volumes, Chemoreceptor, Diffusion capacity, Bohr effect, Ventilation/perfusion ratio, Gas exchange, Hering-Breuer reflex, Pulmonary circulation, Pulmonary shunt, Haldane effect, Pulmonary compliance, DLCO, Respiratory minute volume, Respiratory quotient, Chloride shift, Zones of the lung, Alveolar gas equation, Root effect, Alveolar-arterial gradient, Airway resistance, Inhalation, Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction, Central chemoreceptors, Pulmonary gas pressures, Pneumotaxic center, FiO2, Tidal volume, Exhalation, Closing capacity, Functional residual capacity, Peripheral chemoreceptors, Medial parabrachial nucleus, Vital capacity, Apneustic center, Hemoglobin variants, Pulmonary stretch receptors. Excerpt: Hemoglobin (English pronunciation: also rendered as haemoglobin and abbreviated Hb or Hgb) is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of all vertebrates, with the exception of the fish family Channichthyidae, as well as the tissues of some invertebrates. Hemoglobin in the blood carries oxygen from the respiratory organs (lungs or gills) to the rest of the body (i.e., the tissues) where it releases the oxygen to burn nutrients to provide energy to power the functions of the organism, and collects the resultant carbon dioxide to bring it back to the respiratory organs to be dispensed from the organism. In mammals, the protein makes up about 97% of the red blood cells' dry content, and around 35% of the total content (including water). Hemoglobin has an oxygen binding capacity of 1.34 ml O2 per gram of hemoglobin, which increa...