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J Appl Physiol 38: 710-718, 1975;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 38, Issue 4 710-718, Copyright © 1975 by American Physiological Society

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Time course of exchanges between red cells and extracellular fluid during CO2 uptake

R. E. Forster and E. D. Crandall

A stopped-flow rapid-reaction apparatus was used to follow the time course of extracellular pH in a human red cell suspension following a sudden increase in PCO2. The extracellular pH change was slow (t1/2 similar to 3.5 s) considering the presence of carbonic anhydrase in the cells. When carbonic anhydrase was added to the extracellular fluid, the half-time was reduced to less than 20 ms. The explanation for these phenomena is that the equilibration of H+ across the red cell membrane is rate-limited by the uncatalyzed reaction CO2 plus H2O formed from H2CO3 outside the cells. A theoretical model was developed which successfully reproduced the experimental results. When the model was used to simulate CO2 exchange in vivo, it was determined that blood PCO2 and pH require long times (greater than 50 s) to approach equilibrium between cells and plasma after leaving an exchange capillary. We conclude that cell-plasma equilibrium may never be reached in vivo, and that in vitro measurements of these quantities may not represent their true values at the site of sampling.


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