Xref: utzoo sci.bio:2343 sci.chem:500 sci.med:12488 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.med Subject: Re: Butane death Message-ID: <4641@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 22 Sep 89 22:03:25 GMT References: <89262.194442RAV103@PSUVM.BITNET> <3398@kitty.UUCP> <4633@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <469@castle.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 15 In article <469@castle.ed.ac.uk> djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes: >In article <4633@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) >>I had always understood that methemoglobin is simply an oxidized form >>of hemoglobin, with the ferrous iron (Fe++) in heme oxidized to the >>ferric (Fe+++) state. > >No. There is no iron oxidation in the hemoglobin - oxyhemoglobin reaction. Oh, for God's sakes, read what I wrote. I wasn't writing about the hemoglobin-oxyhemoglobin reaction. . -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu