The Effects of Too Much Carbon Dioxide in the Blood. Excess CO2 can affect you just like a physical obstruction to breathing. Photo Credit Jupiterimages/Goodshoot/Getty Images. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas that's always present in your blood. It is the waste product generated as your body uses up oxygen, and it is expelled from the lungs when you exhale.
Many neuropsychological conditions such as anxiety and depression are directly related to the imbalance of neurotransmitters. Common neurotransmitters include acetylcholine, dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin etc.
(5) Acetylcholine causes the electrical resting potential of the muscle fibre membrane to change, and this then initiates a new action potential that passes in both directions along the surface of the muscle fibre. (6) The action potential spreads deep inside the muscle fibre, carried by transverse tubules.