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Incorporating O2-Hb reaction kinetics and the Fåhraeus effect into a microcirculatory O2-CO2 transport model
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Incorporating O2-Hb reaction kinetics and the Fåhraeus effect into a microcirculatory O2-CO2 transport model

G F Ye, J W Park, R Basude, D G Buerk and D Jaron
IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering, v 45(1)
Jan 1998
PMID: 9444837

Abstract

Arterioles - physiology Cats Carbon Dioxide - metabolism Cerebrovascular Circulation - physiology Models, Cardiovascular Venules - physiology Hemoglobins - metabolism Oxygen Consumption - physiology Capillaries - physiology Algorithms Animals Biological Transport Models, Neurological Diffusion
The influence of O2-Hb reaction kinetics and the Fåhraeus effect on steady state O2 and CO2 transport in cat brain microcirculation was investigated using our refined multicompartmental model. The most important model predictions include: 1) capillaries are the sites in the microcirculation where the effect of O2-Hb kinetics is most pronounced; 2) while there is only a small difference between equilibrium and actual oxygen saturation, this effect is not negligible; 3) O2-Hb kinetics tends to make the PO2 level at the venous entrance higher than in venules; 4) the influence of the Fåhraeus effect leads to a lower tissue PO2 level than in venules and the outlet vein. The resultant decline in tissue PO2 may lead to a decrease in O2 consumption rate and extraction ratio; 5) although the Fåhraeus effect changes the ratio between arteriolar flux and capillary flux, incorporating the Fåhraeus effect and O2-Hb kinetics into the simulation does not change our previous conclusion, that most of the O2 and CO2 exchange takes place at the capillary level; 6) in general, influences of O2-Hb kinetics and Fåhraeus effect are synergistic; 7) a model that excludes these two mechanisms might overestimate the tissue oxygenation level especially during severe hypoxia.

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