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Greetings, Anand,<br>
<br>
I'd like to you and the group a perusal of the articles on CO in
wikipedia. I'm on my way to a reformed conference in the historic
Reformation City of Heidelberg today, so I can't do more than give a
couple of links and suggest that any of you that glean any
information that are from wikipedia in other languages (or other
sources) not included here or contribute to the development of the
wikipedia articles.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlenstoffmonoxid">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlenstoffmonoxid</a><br>
<br>
"In biology, carbon monoxide is naturally produced by the action of
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme_oxygenase" title="Heme
oxygenase">heme oxygenase</a> 1 and 2 on the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme" title="Heme">heme</a>
from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin"
title="Hemoglobin">hemoglobin</a> breakdown. This process produces
a certain amount of <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxyhemoglobin"
title="Carboxyhemoglobin">carboxyhemoglobin</a> in normal persons,
even if they do not breathe any carbon monoxide. Following the first
report that carbon monoxide is a normal neurotransmitter in 1993,<sup
id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_3-0" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide#cite_note-nytimes.com-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup>
as well as one of three gases that naturally modulate inflammatory
responses in the body (the other two being <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitric_oxide" title="Nitric
oxide">nitric oxide</a> and <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide"
title="Hydrogen sulfide">hydrogen sulfide</a>), carbon monoxide
has received a great deal of clinical attention as a biological
regulator. In many tissues, all three gases are known to act as <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-inflammatories"
title="Anti-inflammatories" class="mw-redirect">anti-inflammatories</a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasodilators"
title="Vasodilators" class="mw-redirect">vasodilators</a> and
encouragers of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neovascular"
title="Neovascular" class="mw-redirect">neovascular</a> growth.<sup
id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_4-0" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide#cite_note-ReferenceA-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup>
Clinical trials of small amounts of carbon monoxide as a drug, are
on-going."<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
ron<br>
w<br>
h<br>
p.s. where I'm going today is:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.heidelbergerkonferenz.info/programm/">http://www.heidelbergerkonferenz.info/programm/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 27.10.2010 02:12, Anand Karve wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTikz6o+pBQyoUfPZKGmji-PrXbft2ODuCnTrOMrw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div>Dear Crispin,</div>
<div>does this mean that our bodies are producing CO, or does it
mean that the measuring instrument is wrong? If our bodies are
producing CO and if haemoglobin has a higher affinity to CO than
O2, the self-generated CO should have poisoned all of us by now.
<br>
Yours</div>
<div>A.D.Karve<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Ronald
Hongsermeier <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rwhongser@web.de">rwhongser@web.de</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"
class="gmail_quote">I was still confused, so I read most of
the Wikipedia article and have some understanding now, but
wouldn't think that the production would be constant enough to
make a device calibration on its basis.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
ron<br>
w<br>
h<br>
<br>
<br>
On 26.10.2010 17:34, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"
class="gmail_quote">Hi Ron<br>
<br>
By using a calibrated combustion analyser.<br>
<br>
We breathe out far more CO than we breathe in. Actually I
didn't test my<br>
combustion efficiency. I will get a CO/CO2 ratio for myself
sometime.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Crispin<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
<br>
Sorry, Crispin, but I'm confused: how do you know what
you're breathing out<br>
and whether the analyzer is registering CO or something
different?<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
ron<br>
w<br>
h<br>
<br>
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