Abstract
With increasing motor stimulation or exercise intensity of skeletal muscle its O2 consumption and blood flow increase. As O2 extraction increases, O2 content and PO2 in muscle venous outflow decrease, but never reach zero (e.g. Mercker et al., 1949).In this report, the various factors that have been considered to contribute to this “apparent inefficiency” of O2 transfer will be analyzed in theory and on the basis of experimental data.
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Piiper, J. (1999). Incomplete Oxygen Extraction in Exercising Muscle. In: Eke, A., Delpy, D.T. (eds) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXI. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 471. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4717-4_37
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