The chloride shift refers to the exchange of chloride ions for carbon dioxide gas across respiratory membrane in the alveoli exchange of chloride ions for bicarbonate ions across the erythrocyte membrane effects of chloride ions on hydrogen ion binding affinity in the pulmonary capillaries effects of chloride ions on hydrogen ion diffusion out of erythrocytes

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