The daily production of hydrogen ion from CO2 primarily buffered by which of the following?
Aerobic metabolism produces 13,000 to 24,000 mmol CO2 per day.This yields close to that amount of H+ ions produced per day the reaction CO2 + H20 - 7H2C03 H+ + HCO-3.At the tissues, CO2 diffuses into the red blood cells, where the enzyme carbonic anhydrate accelerates the above reaction. The H+ produced is buffered mainly by the large amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Bicarbonate is not an effective buffer of volatile acid from CO2.
Extracellular bicarbonate
Red bloed cell bicarbonate
Red blood cell hemoglobin
Plasma proteins