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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 4.
Published in final edited form as: Nanotechnology. 2014 Jun 12;25(26):265102. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/26/265102

Table 1.

Blood Oxygen Transport Characteristics

L35-PMNP
Baseline Magnetic field ON Magnetic field OFF Untreated
Hematocrict, % 48 ± 3 47 ± 2 48 ± 2 47 ± 2
Hemoglobin, g/dl 14.7 ± 0.4 14.5 ± 0.5 14.8 ± 0.4 14.5 ± 0.3
P50, mmHg 32.6 ± 1.4 33.1 ± 1.7 38.4 ± 1.4# 32.6 ± 1.4
Cooperativity 2.96 ± 0.10 2.84 ± 0.12 2.62 ± 0.16# 2.92 ± 0.10
Arterial Pressure, mmHg 107 ± 7 110 ± 8 119 ± 6 113 ± 8
Heart rate, bpm 442 ± 27 433 ± 29 401 ± 22 448 ± 25
PaO2, mmHg 59.9 ± 4.1 57.1 ± 5.2 67.2 ± 6.2# 58.6 ± 7.2
PaCO2, mmHg 51.8 ± 4.3 51.2 ± 6.0 47.6 ± 6.0 50.2 ± 4.4
pHa 7.335 ± 0.017 7.331 ± 0.026 7.364 ± 0.027 7.343 ± 0.029

Values are means ± SD. P50, PO2 at which Hb is half saturated with O2; Cooperativity or Hill number, describes the affinity of the Hb-O2 dissociation curve. PaO2, arterial partial O2 pressure; PaCO2, arterial partial pressure of CO2; pHa, arterial blood pH.

P<0.05 compared to baseline

P<0.05 compared to with magnetic field ON

#

P<0.05 compared to Untreated control.