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A RECENT publication1 has shown the mean oxygen consumption of whole blood in vitro at 37° C to be 8.5 × 10−5 ml./ml./min, and the mean rate of increase of P co2 to be 0.11 mm mercury/min. The addition of sodium fluoride was found to reduce the oxygen consumption by 26 per cent and to prevent completely the rise of P co2. The authors commented that their findings were paradoxical “because oxygen could not be consumed without production of carbon dioxide”.
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CAPEL, L., FLETCHER, E. & NUNN, J. Carbon Dioxide Production of Whole Blood in vitro. Nature 208, 82 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208082a0
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