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The main physiological function of hemoglobin is to pick up molecular oxygen in the lungs, transport it to the tissues and deposit it there2. This it can do because the binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is reversible; that is, the overall reaction is described by the equation
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Weissbluth, M. (1974). Oxygenation Characteristics. In: Hemoglobin. Molecular Biology Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80801-2_3
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