blood pigments

the complex protein molecules found in blood and other tissues, which contain metal atoms in their structure. Such pigments have a high affinity for oxygen, functioning in oxygen transport, e.g. HAEMOGLOBIN in vertebrates (containing iron) and HAEMOCYANIN in molluscs and arthropods (with copper), and in oxygen storage within tissues, e.g. MYOGLOBIN (iron) found in muscle cells. See OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE.

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At the same time metabolic rate is reduced at lower temperatures, with the consequence that in some species blood pigments may be less important (for hemocyanin, see Mauro and Mangum, 1982b; Burnett et al.

However, the capacity of their blood pigment, hemocyanin, for carrying oxygen is constrained by the low concentration of an extracellular pigment.

Low-molecular-weight organic substances that contribute to blood pigment function in vertebrates or crustaceans are not found in this group.

Comparison of hemocyanin oxygen binding in cephalopods of different metabolic rates and from various latitudes should show how hemocyanin oxygen transport has adapted to different temperature regimes at various levels of metabolic activity and how blood pigment function contributes to the oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance.

senoi hemocyanin but so high in the blood pigment of cold-adapted giant squid (cf.

Vertebrates without erythrocytes and blood pigment.

Temperature Effects on Hemocyanin Oxygen Binding in an Antarctic Cephalopod

The measurement of the blood pigments oxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin, and bilirubin in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been useful in the differential diagnosis of various hemorrhaggc and traumatic disorders of the brain (1-9).

A solution to this problem was found in the mathematical step-by-step (iterative) unraveling of the main absorbance scan into the scans of the individual blood pigments via the iterative process.

Concentrations of the blood pigments were then calculated with a mathematical approximation technique (iteration procedure).

The linearity of the method was investigated by increasing the concentration of one of the blood pigments in a solution containing high concentrations (3 [micro]mol/L) of the other two pigments.

In addition, we supplemented 27 blank CSF samples with one or more of the blood pigments.

Iterative model for the calculation of oxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin, and bilirubin in absorbance spectra of cerebrospinal fluid