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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Nitric Oxide. 2012 Mar 29;26(4):251–258. doi: 10.1016/j.niox.2012.03.005

Figure 1. Myoglobin facilitates oxygen diffusion.

Figure 1

Capillaries deliver oxygen to the myocyte, where myoglobin binds oxygen at the sarcolemmal membrane. Myoglobin diffuses through the cell and releases oxygen at the mitochondrion, where oxygen concentration is low.