NIH R01 · 2025
Mechanisms of oxygen off-loading from red blood cells in murine models of human disease
Red blood cells (RBCs) play a vital role in gas transport—carrying O2 from the alveolar air to systemic tissues, and CO2 in the opposite direction. Their task is central to many diseases of major public-health relevance, in- cluding including heart failure, pulmonary disease (including COVID-19), vascular disease, and sepsis (hy- poperfusion). An important component in the movement of these gases within the body is the transport of these gases across of the plasma membrane (PM) of the RBCs. The dogma had been that all gases cross all mem- branes merely by dissolving in and diffusing through membrane lipids. However, challenging this dogma was the discovery of the first CO2 impermeable…
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