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Biophysical Journal 49: 857-868 (1986)
© 1986 the Biophysical Society
ABSTRACT
A theoretical two-dimensional model is used to investigate oxygen gradients in a red skeletal muscle fiber. The model describes the steady state, free and myoglobin-facilitated diffusion of oxygen into a respiring cylindrical muscle fiber cross section. The oxygen tension at the sarcolemma is assumed to vary along the sarcolemma as an approximation to the discrete capillary oxygen supply around the fiber. Maximal oxygen gradients are studied by considering parameters relevant to a maximally-respiring red muscle fiber. The model predicts that angular variations in the oxygen tension imposed at the sarcolemma due to the discrete capillary sources do not penetrate deeply into the fiber over a range of physiological values for myoglobin concentration, diffusion coefficients, number of surrounding capillaries, and oxygen tension level at the sarcolemma. Also, the oxygen tension in the core of the fiber is determined by the average oxygen tension at the sarcolemma. The drop in oxygen tension from fiber periphery to core, however, does depend significantly on the myoglobin concentration, the oxygen tension level at the sarcolemma, and the oxygen and myoglobin diffusivities. This dependence is summarized by calculating the minimum average sarcolemmal oxygen tension for maximal respiration without the development of an intracellular anoxic region. For a myoglobin-rich muscle fiber (0.5 mM myoglobin), the model predicts that maximal oxygen consumption can proceed with a relatively flat (less than 5 mm Hg) oxygen tension drop from fiber periphery to core over a large range for diffusion coefficients.
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