A student in your lab volunteers to enter a hypoxic breathing chamber for 10 minutes, and his alveolar PO2 drops to 50 mm Hg. What other change would occur?
A) increase in alveolar PCO2
B) decrease in pH of cerebrospinal fluid
C) decrease in arterial PCO2
D) decrease in arterial pH
E) hypoventilation
C) decrease in arterial PCO2
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