Assertion: hemoglobin | /r/CapableOf | bind oxygen
Facets:
value: more readily
type: MANNER
value: in its r state
type: LOCATION
value: normally
type: DEGREE
value: at high partial pressures of oxygen
type: MANNER
value: in the lungs
type: LOCATION
value: with less affinity
type: OTHER
value: at lower ph
type: TEMPORAL
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: more easily
type: MANNER
value: effectively
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: This presents a challenge to the organisms that inhabit such environments because hemoglobin, which normally binds oxygen at high partial pressures of oxygen, must be able to bind oxygen when it is present at a lower pressure.
text: This makes it more difficult for hemoglobin to bind to oxygen (requiring a higher partial pressure of oxygen to achieve the same oxygen saturation), but it makes it easier for the hemoglobin to release oxygen bound to it.
text: If we look at a left shift, the partial pressure of oxygen is lower which means that that hemoglobin needs to stick to that oxygen because it doesn’t wanna let go because it needs it.
text: Because the higher the altitude is, the lower oxygen level is in the air- body is producing more hemoglobin to bind as much oxygen as it is possible!
text: This is useful because, with a high affinity for oxygen in the lungs, hemoglobin can effectively bind to more oxygen.
text: This presents a challenge to the organisms that inhabit such environments because hemoglobin, which normally binds oxygen at high partial pressures of oxygen, must be able to bind oxygen when it is present at a lower pressure.
text: In its R state, hemoglobin will bind oxygen more readily, thus allowing organisms to perform the necessary metabolic processes when oxygen is present at low partial pressures.
text: This leftward shift indicates that the hemoglobin under study has an increased affinity for oxygen so that hemoglobin binds oxygen more easily, but unloads it more reluctantly.
text: Thus, hemoglobin can sequentially increase its affinity for oxygen as more and more of its strands bind oxygen.
text: This presents a challenge to the organisms that inhabit such environments because hemoglobin, which normally binds oxygen at high partial pressures of oxygen, must be able to bind oxygen when it is present at a lower pressure.
text: This presents a challenge to the organisms that inhabit such environments because hemoglobin, which normally binds oxygen at high partial pressures of oxygen, must be able to bind oxygen when it is present at a lower pressure.
text: In its R state, hemoglobin will bind oxygen more readily, thus allowing organisms to perform the necessary metabolic processes when oxygen is present at low partial pressures.
text: When carbon monoxide binds hemoglobin, hemoglobin can no longer bind oxygen.
text: Hemoglobin not only binds oxygen and transports it to capillaries, but it also helps to transport carbon dioxide from the capillaries back to the lungs to be exhaled.
text: Carbon monoxide, for example, is extremely dangerous when carried to the blood via the lungs by inhalation, because carbon monoxide irreversibly binds to hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin, so that less hemoglobin is free to bind oxygen, and fewer oxygen molecules can be transported throughout the blood.
text: This presents a challenge to the organisms that inhabit such environments because hemoglobin, which normally binds oxygen at high partial pressures of oxygen, must be able to bind oxygen when it is present at a lower pressure.
text: This presents a challenge to the organisms that inhabit such environments because hemoglobin, which normally binds oxygen at high partial pressures of oxygen, must be able to bind oxygen when it is present at a lower pressure.
text: In its R state, hemoglobin will bind oxygen more readily, thus allowing organisms to perform the necessary metabolic processes when oxygen is present at low partial pressures.
text: Bohr effect is a property of hemoglobin which states that at lower pH (more acidic environment), hemoglobin will bind to oxygen with less affinity.
text: Hemoglobin binds to oxygen in the lungs and releases it in the tissues predominately to those tissues in most need of oxygen.
text: Red blood cells require hemoglobin -- a protein containing chemical complexes, called heme groups -- to function because hemoglobin binds to oxygen so that the cells can transport it throughout your body.
text: Could a volunteer explain to me how hemoglobin are able to know when to release and bind to oxygen?
text: Hemoglobin are NOT ONLY able to bind to oxygen, but they are also capable of binding to H+.
text: Hemoglobin binds to oxygen in the blood vessels in the lung, but it lets go of the oxygen in the capillaries when the muscle tissues really need it.
text: If we look at a left shift, the partial pressure of oxygen is lower which means that that hemoglobin needs to stick to that oxygen because it doesn’t wanna let go because it needs it.