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J W Eaton, T D Skelton, E Berger.
Abstract
Decreased hemoglobin-oxygen affinity is thought to be of adaptive value to humans and nonindigenous animals at high altitude. To test this, hemoglobin-oxygen affinity was modified by carbamoylation of hemoglobin in rats. Exposure of control (low oxygen affinity) and experimental (high oxygen affinity) animals to a pressure equivalent to high altitude revealed that increased, rather than decreased, hemoglobin-oxygen affinity will permit survival at greatly reduced environmental oxygen pressures.Entities:
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Year: 1974 PMID: 4821240 DOI: 10.1126/science.183.4126.743
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728