what is haemoglobin???
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About 70 percent of your body's iron is found in the red blood cells of your blood called hemoglobin and in muscle cells called myoglobin. Hemoglobin is essential for transferring oxygen in your blood from the lungs to the tissues. Myoglobin, in muscle cells, accepts, stores, transports and releases oxygen.
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- Haemoglobin is the oxygen binding protein present in the blood. It is present in the red blood cells.
- Haemoglobin takes up oxygen from the lungs and bind to it.
- One molecule of hemoglobin binds to four molecules of oxygen.
- Oxygen-hemoglobin complex is then transported to various parts of the body and oxygen is released into the tissues
- Haemoglobin has some role in transportation of carbon dioxide from body parts to lungs. About 10% of carbon dioxide transportation occurs through hemoglobin.
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