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[The function of hemoglobins]

K Winnefeld1

  • 1Klinik und Poliklinik für Chirurgie des Bereiches Medizin, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Folia Haematologica (Leipzig, Germany : 1928)
|January 1, 1989
PubMed

Haemoglobin is primarily responsible for the oxygen supply and a normal acid-base economy in mammals. An optimal loading of haemoglobin with oxygen in the lungs and a high desaturation in the periphery are ensured by a highly cooperative oxygen binding of 4 subunits as well as by different effectors--2,3 DPG, chloride, pH, temperature...-.A number of differently built-up haemoglobins will ensure a sufficient oxygen supply of individual ontogenetic stages of development in the human organism.

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