Oxygen Sensing
Subtitle: Responses and Adaptation to Hypoxia (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
Contributors: Sukhamay Lahiri (Editor); Gregg Semenza (Editor); Nanduri R. Prabhakar (Editor)
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: April 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 776
ISBN-13: 9780824709600
Subjects: Oxygen in the body; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Metabolism; Cell respiration; Medical / Nursing; Physiology; Medical; Pathophysiology; Oxygen; Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Anoxemia
First sentence: Intracellular O2 concentrations in humans and other mammals are maintained within a relatively narrow range, with partial pressures of O2 varying between a high of approximately 110 mmHg (16% O2 at sea level) in the pulmonary alveoli to a low of less than 20 mmHg (3% O2) in some areas of the heart, kidney, and brain.