Jun 17 - Jul 5 2006
Arrival in Frankfurt
Copenhagen >>>
Viking Museum
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With the group
Departure
Setting sail
Gdansk, Poland
Vilnius, Lithuania
Riga, Latvia
To Sweden
Stockholm
To Finland
Helsinki
Tallin, Estonia
St. Petersburg
father of Niels Bohr, who discovered the
mechanism by which hemoglobin delivers
oxygen to tissues in exchange for carbon
dioxide, the major end-product of metabolism.
Our guide expressed gratitude for this piece of
Danish history of which he had no knowledge.
Indeed, no commemorations of Christian Bohr
were anywhere to be seen. Our guide also
commented on having been a childhood victim
of aplastic anemia, thus having personal
understanding of hemoglobin as a large part of
happiness.
The one hundredth anniversary of the paper by
Bohr and his collaborators was celebrated in the
November 2004 issue of Acta physiologica
Scandinavica. See for example:
Nikinmaa M. The Bohr effect--a discovery 100 years ago,
with intensive studies about the effect of protons on
haemoglobin function still going on. Acta Physiol Scand.
2004 Nov;182(3):213-4.
Jensen FB. Red blood cell pH, the Bohr effect, and other
oxygenation-linked phenomena in blood O2 and CO2
transport. Acta Physiol Scand. 2004 Nov;182(3):215-27.