Chemical facilitation of thermal conduction in physiological systems.
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.
D001639:Bicarbonates / Q000378:metabolism; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D004735:Energy Transfer; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000378:metabolism; D010108:Oxyhemoglobins / Q000378:metabolism; D013816:Thermodynamics
D001639:Bicarbonates; D009211:Myoglobin; D010108:Oxyhemoglobins