Oxygen transport and release of adenosine triphosphate in micro-channels and arterioles in the human microcirculation
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Abstract
The governing nonlinear equations for oxygen transport and ATP concentration in a microfluidic channel and tube are solved in a novel way with the aid of Maple and COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software. Considering a model which assumes a larger plasma velocity near the wall of a channel/tube in comparison to RBC velocity near the centerline we obtain results showing clearly that there is a significant decrease in oxygen tension in the vicinity of an oxygen permeable membrane placed midway on the upper channel/tube wall and to the right side of it in the downstream field. The purpose of the membrane is to cause a rapid change in oxygen saturation as RBC’s flow through channel/tube. To the right of the membrane downstream the greatest amount of ATP is released. It is shown that for smaller arterioles there is an optimal size for which greater amounts of ATP can be released. Finally the corresponding time-dependent oxygen transport problem for plug flow in a channel, which has not been simulated in previous models in the literature, is analyzed and different starting times are shown for ATP release at different points in the channel. The FE modelling is very accurate: The time evolution problem is modelled and solved in it`s entirety with exact parameters used in the literature for blood flow and oxygen transport in the microcirculation. A comparison is made between the steady state and time dependent solutions in order to validate the results. The implications of the time dependent model for biological systems such as the human microcirculation requires exact information on release of energy as ATP is released from blood cells and the present work is important in providing this information. In particular, the time varying problem for ATP concentration and it’s temporal dynamics, as calculated in this paper is crucial in determining the ADP/ATP concentration pair which is an oscillating pair in the biochemical oscillations that occur in glycolysis in anaerobic yeast cultures.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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