228) THE OXYHAEMOGLOBIN DISSOCIATION CURVE IS SHIF

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228) THE OXYHAEMOGLOBIN DISSOCIATION CURVE IS SHIFTED TO THE LEFT BY

a) fever
b) metabolic acidosis
c) erythropoetin
d) anaemia
e) chronic hypoxia

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mark wrote:

228) THE OXYHAEMOGLOBIN DISSOCIATION CURVE IS SHIFTED TO THE LEFT BY

a) fever
b) metabolic acidosis
c) erythropoetin
d) anaemia
e) chronic hypoxia

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Hyperthermia and acidosis shift the curve to the right. Erythropoietin has no direct effect on the curve. Anaemia and chronic hypoxia cause an increase in 23 DPG, increase in 23DGP shifts the curve to the right.