Liver organelle changes on exposure to hypoxia.
Exposure of mice to hypoxia reduces the length of each element of endoplasmic reticulum. This may shorten the path length of oxygen within the cell and have an adaptive advantage. There were no significant changes in the other organelles.
Longmuir
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Department of Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7622.
Betts
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Clayton
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D000818:Animals; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000648:ultrastructure; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000473:pathology*; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D009940:Organoids / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D011132:Polyribosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012016:Reference Values
D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System