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Can we breathe through our skin?

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Can we breathe through our skin?

« on: 11/03/2019 13:49:00 »

Doha has been in touch to ask:

Can we breathe through our skin, or rather diffuse O₂?

Do you know?

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Re: Can we breathe through our skin?

« Reply #1 on: 11/03/2019 14:20:11 »

Only enough to keep outer skin cells alive, see ...
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/jphysiol.2001.013067

So hyperbaric oxygen treatment can help skin (e.g. grafts) heal ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5220535/

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