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Kinetics of blood deoxygenation was studied during acute hypoxia induced by subcutaneous administration of sodium nitrite using polarographic method. Plasma oxygen tension remained unaltered as the dose of sodium nitrite increased, while the dynamics of oxygen release was dose-dependent. The constant of oxyhemoglobin deoxygenation rate proved to vary with blood deoxygenation. The nitrite-induced deceleration of oxyhemoglobin deoxygenation was due to the inactivation of a fraction of hemoglobin as well as to the increased hemoglobin oxygen affinity and possible changes in the oxygen permeability of erythrocyte membranes during acute methemoglobinemia.
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Original Russian Text © T.E. Shumilova, N.A. Yanvareva, V.I. Shereshkov, A.D. Nozdrachev, 2006, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2006, No. 2, pp. 211–216.
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Shumilova, T.E., Yanvareva, N.A., Shereshkov, V.I. et al. Effect of nitrite-induced methemoglobinemia on the kinetics of blood deoxygenation. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 33, 167–171 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359006020117
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