Contribution of membrane permeability and unstirred layer diffusion to nitric oxide-red blood cell interaction

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• 作者：Prabhakar Deonikar ; ^{ep3439@wayne.edu} ; Mahendra Kavdia
• 关键词：Nitric oxide ; Red blood cells ; Permeability ; Extracellular diffusional resistance ; Internal diffusion
• 刊名：Journal of Theoretical Biology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：21 January, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：317
• 期：Complete
• 页码：321-330
• 全文大小：670 K

文摘

Nitric oxide (NO) consumption by red blood cell (RBC) hemoglobin (Hb) in vasculature is critical in regulating the vascular tone. The paradox of NO production at endothelium in close proximity of an effective NO scavenger Hb in RBCs is mitigated by lower NO consumption by RBCs compared to that of free Hb due to transport resistances including membrane resistance, extra- and intra-cellular resistances for NO biotransport to the RBC. Relative contribution of each transport resistance on NO-RBC interactions is still not clear. We developed a mathematical model of NO transport to a single RBC to quantify the contributions from individual transport barriers by analyzing the effect of RBC membrane permeability (P_m), hematocrit (Hct) and NO-Hb reaction rate constants on NO-RBC interactions. Our results indicated that intracellular diffusion of NO was not a rate limiting step for NO-RBC interactions. The extracellular diffusion contributed 70-90 % of total transport resistance for P_m>1 cm s^?1 whereas membrane resistance accounts for 50-75 % of total transport resistance for P_m<0.1 cm s^?1. We propose a narrow P_m range of 0.21-0.44 cm s^?1 for 10-45 % Hct, respectively, below which membrane resistance is more significant and above which extracellular diffusion is a dominating transport resistance for NO-RBC interactions.