A pictographic essay on blood and tissue oxygen transport

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 213-221

  Stainsby, W N ^a,b,c   Snyder, B ^a,b,c   Welch, H G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Krogh model; Oxygen cascade; Oxygen transport; Tissue

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIA; MITOCHONDRION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CAPILLARY; HUMAN; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAPILLARIES; HUMAN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

EID: 0023821033     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/00005768-198806000-00001     Document Type: Article

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