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Toxic oxygen: the radical life-giver
- Source :
- EPIC3Nature, 420, 27 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- A primary function of mitochondria may have been to compartmentalize respiration, thus protecting cells from the damaging side-effects of oxygen metabolism.
- Subjects :
- 0303 health sciences
Multidisciplinary
Primary (chemistry)
Chemistry
Oxygen metabolism
Cell Respiration
chemistry.chemical_element
Mitochondrion
Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen
Biological Evolution
Antioxidants
Cell biology
Mitochondria
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Respiration
Reactive Oxygen Species
Function (biology)
030304 developmental biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00280836
- Volume :
- 420
- Issue :
- 6911
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b950179334500f454d6f9b57c37ebc4d