Model calculations suggest myoglobin facilitates intracellular oxygen transport via diffusion along a PO2 gradient, in addition to its role as an oxygen store.
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No immediate clinical implications; hypothesis-generating for myoglobin-facilitated oxygen diffusion in cardiomyocytes.
Jürgens et al. (2000) studied this question.
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