Question

Give the mechanism of the action of carbon monoxide?​

Answer 1

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Carbon monoxide gas passes through the lungs directly into blood stream during respiration. There it combines with haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is the substance which carries oxygen to all the tissues of the body. Because haemoglobin binds carbon monoxide over 200 times as strongly as oxygen, a low concentration of carbon monoxide in the air has a greatly magnified effect on the body. It reduces the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood by an equivalent amount to the haemoglobin converted into carboxy haemoglobin.

Haemoglobin + CO Carboxy haemoglobin Brain and Heart are the two sensitive to oxygen depletion. They show the most serious effects from carbon monoxide exposure. Thus, high concentration of carbon monoxide may kill by paralyzing the normal brain action.

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Answer 2

Carbon monoxide gas passes through the lungs directly into blood stream during respiration. There it combines with haemoglobin. ... It reduces the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood by an equivalent amount to the haemoglobin converted into carboxy haemoglobin.

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