Chemical Facilitation of Thermal Conduction in Physiological Systems
- 23 November 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 182 (4114), 823-825
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.182.4114.823
Abstract
Experimental evidence supports the concept that solutes capable of reversible chemical reaction can passively facilitate thermnal conduction within their solutions. Myoglobin and bicarbonate are suggested as energy carriers in muscle, having the combined capacity for conveying all waste metabolic heat produced under normal physiological conditions. The concept is extended to convective heat transfer in vivo; this implicates hemoglobin.Keywords
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