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J Appl Physiol 77: 303-312, 1994;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 77, Issue 1 303-312, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of lipid on inert gas kinetics

J. F. Himm, L. D. Homer and J. A. Novotny
Diving Biomedical Technology Functional Area, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20889-5607.

A Monte Carlo simulation of inert gas transit through skeletal muscle has been extended to include regions of increased gas solubility to simulate regions of high lipid content. Position of the regions within the simulation module was varied, as was the muscle-lipid partition coefficient (lambda). The volume percentage of the lipid regions (alpha) was varied from 0 to 25% while lambda covered the range from 1 to 50. The effects of alpha and lambda on mean transit time and on relative dispersion (RD; ratio of SD to the mean) were examined for a single lipid volume and compared with expected values under the assumption that the tissue is composed of two well-stirred compartments. Mean transit times varied from approximately 0.80 to 1.20 times the values predicted by a simple parallel two-compartment model, whereas RD varied from 0.9 to 3.6. For fixed lambda, RD as a function of lipid fraction passes through a maximum that is shifted and was also smaller than expected from a simple two-compartment model. For fixed alpha, RD approaches an asymptotic value for large lambda, but the asymptote is smaller than that expected from the two-compartment model. When lipid is distributed in only two regions, RD decreases with increasing separation of the regions and with increasing surface area of the fat regions. A model of two well-stirred compartments that allows mixing between the compartments yields results similar to those from the simulation.


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