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  • Title: Comparison of intracellular PO2 and conditions for blood-tissue O2 transport in heart and working red skeletal muscle.
    Author: Honig CR, Gayeski TE.
    Journal: Adv Exp Med Biol; 1987; 215():309-21. PubMed ID: 3673731.
    Abstract:
    1. Neither anoxic nor hypoxic cells were found in epicardium of anaesthetized dogs, cats, rabbits and rats despite heterogeneity of flow (Wieringa et al., 1982) and haematocrit (Honig et al., in press) in the coronary capillary network. 2. Median PO2 in unstressed dog heart and cat heart are 4.8 and 5.2 torr, respectively. These values are close to the P50 of the oxymyoglobin dissociation curve, and well above PcritO2. 3. A dense, interconnected capillary network and high capillary haematocrit appear essential to achieve high O2 extraction at flows characteristic of maximally working myocardium. 4. Mb promotes O2 transport in myocardium by: a) maximizing the driving force for transcapillary diffusion, b) minimizing spatial variability in PmbO2, c) facilitating O2 diffusion in myocytes and, d) permitting close capillary packing without a diffusion shunt for O2. 5. The O2 conductance of the red cell-capillary system is a major determinant of O2 mass transfer in red muscle.
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