Author(s): Arturo Solís Herrera and María del Carmen Arias Esparza
Oxygen seems of fundamental importance to survival. Thereby, transportation exchange, and regulation of necessary gases is critical. The prevalent dogma indicates that the exchange from atmospheric oxygen in the lungs is by simple diffusion, caused by the differential pressure of gases involved in respiration. Gases tend to move from a high-pressure area to a low-pressure one.
Theoretically, at the end of the process, oxygen passes from the blood to the tissue fluid and carbon dioxide from tissue fluid into the blood. Apparently, blood stream is a well-developed system for the transportation of gases.
However, our finding about the unsuspected intrinsic property of human body to dissociate the water molecule, breaks in thousand pieces the ancient dogma about living beings can absorbs atmospheric oxygen.
