PMID- 5545127 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19710406 LR - 20181113 IS - 0021-9738 (Print) IS - 0021-9738 (Linking) VI - 50 IP - 3 DP - 1971 Mar TI - Regulatory mechanisms of hemoglobin oxygen affinity in acidosis and alkalosis. PG - 700-6 AB - The recent reports of the effect of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) on hemoglobin affinity for oxygen suggested that this substance may play a role in man's adaptation to acidosis and alkalosis.A study of the effect of induced acidosis and alkalosis on the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve of normal man was therefore carried out, and the mechanisms involved in the physiological regulation of hemoglobin oxygen affinity examined.In acute changes of plasma pH there was no alteration in red cell 2,3-DPG content. However, there were changes in hemoglobin oxygen affinity and these correlated with changes in mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC). With maintained acidosis and alkalosis, red cell 2,3-DPG content was altered and correlated with the changes in hemoglobin oxygen affinity. Both of these mechanisms shift the hemoglobin oxygen dissociation curve opposite to the direct pH (Bohr) effect, and providing the rate of pH change is neither too rapid nor too large, they counteract the direct pH effect and the in vivo hemoglobin oxygen affinity remains unchanged. It is also shown that approximately 35% of the change in hemoglobin oxygen affinity resulting from an alteration in red cell 2,3-DPG, is explained by effect of 2,3-DPG on the red cell pH. FAU - Bellingham, A J AU - Bellingham AJ FAU - Detter, J C AU - Detter JC FAU - Lenfant, C AU - Lenfant C LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - J Clin Invest JT - The Journal of clinical investigation JID - 7802877 RN - 142M471B3J (Carbon Dioxide) SB - IM MH - Acidosis/*blood MH - Alkalosis/*blood MH - Arteries MH - Blood MH - Carbon Dioxide/blood PMC - PMC291978 EDAT- 1971/03/01 00:00 MHDA- 1971/03/01 00:01 PMCR- 1971/03/01 CRDT- 1971/03/01 00:00 PHST- 1971/03/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1971/03/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1971/03/01 00:00 [entrez] PHST- 1971/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1172/JCI106540 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Clin Invest. 1971 Mar;50(3):700-6. doi: 10.1172/JCI106540.