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Donnelly 2022 Abstract Bioblast

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Donnelly Chris
Donnelly Chris, Schmitt S, Cecatto C, Cardoso L, Komlodi T, Place N, Kayser B, Gnaiger E (2022) The ABC of hypoxia – what is the norm.
Bioblast 2022: BEC Inaugural Conference. In: https://doi.org/10.26124/bec:2022-0001
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Donnelly Chris, Schmitt Sabine, Cecatto Cristiane, Cardoso Luiza, Komlodi Timea, Place Nicolas, Kayser Bengt, Gnaiger Erich (2022)

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Hypoxia is a condition of oxygen levels below normoxia and opposite to hyperoxia. We here define the normoxic reference state by three complementary precepts: (A) ambient normoxia at sea level in the contemporary atmosphere and corresponding dissolved O2 concentration at air saturation of aqueous environments; (B) biological compartmental O2 levels at ambient normoxia under physiological activity of healthy organisms in the absence of environmental stress (e.g. in a diving human, a stranded whale, a thermally stressed animal); and (C) O2 levels above the control region, i.e., where the capacity for oxygen consumption is not compromised by partial O2 pressure as evaluated by its kinetics. Conversely, the abc of hypoxia is concerned with deviations from these reference points caused by different mechanisms: (a) ambient alterations of oxygen levels, (b) biological O2 demand exceeding oxygen supply under pathological or experimental limitations of convective O2 transport or O2 diffusion, and (c) critical oxygen pressure in oxygen kinetics shifted by pathological and toxicological effects or environmental stress. The ABC of hypoxia may be of help in the design and interpretation of in vitro and in vivo experimental studies.

Keywords: ambient, anoxia, critical O2 pressure pc, functional hypoxia, hyperoxia, hypoxia, limiting O2 pressure pl, normoxia, oxygen O2, O2 concentration cO2 [µM], O2 pressure pO2 [kPa]

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Affiliations and support

Donnelly C1,2, Schmitt S1, Cecatto C1, Cardoso L1, Komlodi T1,3, Place N2, Kayser B2, Gnaiger E1
  1. Oroboros Instruments, Innsbruck, Austria - [email protected] (corresponding author)
  2. Institute of Sport Sciences, Univ. Lausanne, Switzerland - [email protected] (presenting author)
  3. Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU
Chris Donnelly was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant agreement nº 194964.

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Labels: MiParea: Respiration, Comparative MiP;environmental MiP, Exercise physiology;nutrition;life style 

Stress:Oxidative stress;RONS, Hypoxia 



Regulation: Aerobic glycolysis, Flux control, Temperature  Coupling state: ROUTINE 

HRR: Oxygraph-2k  Event: A2  Tissue normoxia