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Tumor microenvironment. An avascular tumor with regions of hypoxia and anoxia produces both carbon dioxide from respiration and protons from anaerobic glycolysis. Bicarbonate buffers the pHe in the tissue by converting protons into water and carbon dioxide; the latter diffuses back to blood vessels and is expelled in the lungs.
