Hypoxia and Medicine

myo gif

myo gif

Summary: Myoglobin Muscles contain a pigment called myoglobin This gives the muscle it characteristic red colour Myoglobin has a higher affinity for oxygen that normal haemoglobin It only has one haem group and one globin group storing just one oxygen per myoglobin Compare the saturation of

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