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It is shown that, when oxygen and haemoglobin are diffusing through haemoglobin solutions, the concentration of total haemoglobin will be constant, independent of the reaction scheme of haemoglobin with oxygen.
Solutions of transport equations for the cases of oxygen uptake in a stationary and in a moving flat film of haemoglobin solution are given. The influence of the diffusion of haemoglobin is shown.
Advancing front equations, corrected for physically dissolved oxygen, are derived by formal integration of the transport equations. It is shown that these derived formulas are good approximations of the solutions of the transport equations when the diffusion of haemoglobin is neglected.
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Spaan, J.A.E. Transfer of oxygen into haemoglobin solution. Pflugers Arch. 342, 289–306 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00586101
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00586101