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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2008 Jan 31;161(2):142–159. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2008.01.004

Table 2.

Model parameters. Values not given here are available from our earlier models (Bruce and Bruce, 2003, 2006).

Parameter Value Source
Specific to subject #120 Benignus, et al., 1994; Smith, et al., 1994
Age (yr) 23.9 (Subject 120)
Height (m) 1.791 (subject 120)
Body weight (Kg) 72.70
Blood volume (ml/kg) 60.94
DLCO, air (ml/min/Torr) 29.00
[Hb] (gm/ml) 0.14
Cardiac output (ml/min) 5800.00

MRO2 (ml/min/gm) Erupaka, 2007
Whole-body 0.0032
Arm muscles 0.0014
Trunk muscles 0.0020
Leg muscles 0.0020

Blood flow (ml/min) Erupaka, 2007
Arm muscles 0.0210
Trunk muscles 0.0300
Leg muscles 0.0300

Muscle mass (% of whole body muscle mass) Erupaka, 2007
Arm muscles M: 46.63, F: 49.53
Trunk muscles M: 37.73, F: 36.51
Leg muscles M: 15.64, F: 13.96

Gaseous volumes (ml)
Lungs 2500.00
Rebreathing circuit 2500.00

Diffusivity of O2 0.00060 Secomb and Hsu, 1994; Li, et al., 1997; Whitely, et al, 2002

Diffusivity of CO 0.00045 Bruce and Bruce, 2003

Solubility of O2 (ml/ml/Torr) 3.00 × 10-5 Beard and Bassingthwaite, 2001

Solubility of CO (ml/ml/Torr) 2.37 × 10-5 Bruce and Bruce, 2003

Mb concentration (gm/ml) 0.0047 Bruce and Bruce, 2003

Net body CO production (ml/min) 0.007 Tobias, et al., 1945; Coburn, 1970