The biology of oxygen.
The biology of O(2) is extremely complex and defies a comprehensive yet brief summary that showcases its roles across the entire animal and plant kingdom. This necessarily short introduction to the 2006 Taormina Lung Science Conference (Taormina, Italy) on hypoxia will examine key features of the biology of O(2) only within mammalian cells, even that being a daunting task.
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Division of Physiology, Dept of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. pdwagner@ucsd.edu
D000818:Animals; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000502:physiology; D008322:Mammals / Q000502:physiology*; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000502:physiology; D010100:Oxygen / Q000502:physiology*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange / Q000502:physiology; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species
D006454:Hemoglobins; D009211:Myoglobin; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D010100:Oxygen