BSC 1086C Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Venous Blood, Partial Pressure, Red Blood Cell

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21 Feb 2017
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Chapter 24- external & internal respiration and gas transport powerpoint. Basic properties of gases: physical properties of gases, composition of alveolar gas. The amount of gas that will dissolve in a liquid also depends upon its solubility: co2 is 20 times more soluble in water than o2. Alveoli contain more co2 and water vapor than atmospheric air, due to: gas exchanges in the lungs, humidification of air, mixing of alveolar gas that occurs with each breath. Exchange of o2 and co2 across the respiratory membrane. Influenced by: partial pressure gradients and gas solubilities, ventilation-perfusion coupling, structural characteristics of the respiratory membrane. Partial pressure gradient for o2 in the lungs is steep: venous blood po2= 40 mm hg, alveolar po2= 104 mm hg. O2 partial pressures reach equilibrium of 104 mm hg in ~0. 25 seconds, about 1/3 the time a red blood cell is in a pulmonary capillary.

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