The regulation of the general circulation rate in man
The regulation of the general circulation rate in man
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人体总循环速率的调节
DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1922.sp001993
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发表时间:
1922
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通讯作者:
J. Haldane
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作者:
C. G. Douglas;J. Haldane
After holding the breath four seconds, about half of it was expired through a tube arranged so that a sample of alveolar air was obtained by the Haldane-Priestley method. A second alveolar sample was then taken from the rest of the breath six seconds later. In a successful experiment the C02-percentage in thetwo samples was practically the same, as the C02-pressure in the alveolar air was in equilibrium with that in the oxygenated venous blood.As we had shown, oxygenation of reduced or partially reduced defibrinated blood raises its C02-pressure; and since the venous blood is oxygenated in the lungs when the method just described is used, the excess in C02-pressure of the oxygenated venous blood over that of the arterial blood ought by calculation to be about50 to 60 pc greater during rest than that of the unoxygenated venous blood. When, therefore, we found that the C02-pressure of the oxygenated venous blood was 8 mm. higher than that of the arterial blood, the calculatedCO2-pressure of the venous blood before oxygenation was only about 5 mm. higher, as can easily be seen from Fig. 3 of the paper. To measure directly the true C02-pressure of thevenous blood before oxygenation it was evidently necessary to inhale a gas-mixture such that both the oxygenpressure and C02-pressure of the venous blood were in equilibrium with those of the gas-mixture in the alveoli. The circulation rate, as calculated from the oxygen-pressure, could then be used to check the result calculated from the C02-pressure. We mentioned that the circulation rate (an unexpectedly rapid one) calculated from the C02-pressure was confirmed by calculation from the observed oxygen-pressure. The oxygen-pressure experiments revealed a source of fallacy which became specially evidentwhen we attempted to determine the venous oxygen-pressure just after forced breathing. As was pointed out by one of us in 1915 (3), the" alveolar air" as obtained by the Haldane-Priestley method represents the contents of the alveoli of the" air-sac" system described by Miller (4). Besides the air-sac alveoli which make up by far the greater part of the lung alveoli there are the alveoli of the respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and atria. These'act as air-passages to the air-sac alveoli, and expand with the air-sac alveoli during inspiration. When a deep breath is taken of a mixture differing considerably in composition from the air-sac air, this mixture fills the air-passage alveoli and mixes with the air in the air-sac alveoli. But the mixture left in the air-sac or deep alveoli must differ in composition from that in the air-passage alveoli. Hence, apart from the effects of gaseous interchange between blood and air, the first portion of deep alveolar