LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT FAST GAS.

The last proposed system of RBC vasodilation within the presence of nitrite could be the reduction of nitrite to NO by Hb. Brooks initially analyzed the nitrite Hb conversation in 1937 and this do the job was later on extended by Doyle in 1981 (Brooks, 1937; Doyle et al., 1981). Nitrite reacts with deoxygenated Hb to type metHb and NO (Brooks, 1937