3-D Tissue
Respiratory functions of blood
- Liver inlet O2 tension is 90mmHg
- Liver has 100 billion hepatocytes
- Outlet O2 tension is 35mmHg
- Blood flow rate is 3.5 litres/minute
- Using Fick's law oxygen uptake rate is 1.2nmols/s/106 hepatocytes
- In vitro measurements of oxygen uptake rate are about 0.4 nmols/s/106 hepatocytes