OXYGEN DELIVERY FROM RED-CELLS
OXYGEN DELIVERY FROM RED-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3495(85)83890-x
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
COKELET, GR
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作者:
CLARK, A;FEDERSPIEL, WJ;COKELET, GR
This paper deals with the theoretical analysis of unloading of O2 from a red cell. A scale analysis of the governing transport equations shows that the solutions have a boundary layer structure near the red-cell membrane. The boundary layer is a region of chemical nonequilibrium, and it owes its existence to the fact that the kinetic time scales are shorter than the diffusion time scales in the red cell. The presence of the boundary layer allows an analytical solution to be obtained by the method of matched asymptotic expansions. A very useful result from the analysis is a simple, lumped-parameter description of the O2 delivery from a red cell. The accuracy of the lumped-parameter description was verified by comparing its predictions with results obtained by numerical integration of the full equations for a 1-dimensional slab. As an application, minimum O2 unloading times for red cells are calculated.