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Oxygen and Oxidative Stress

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Oxygen is a structural and functional compound essential to life. Evoking the toxicity of this molecule could seem inappropriate or even provocative. After its discovery by Priestley in 1774, Lavoisier named it “oxygen” from the Greek words oxys and gennan meaning “generating acid”. At the same time, he demonstrated its essential role in respiration. This emphasized immediately the duality of this molecule to which the vast majority of living organisms have had to adapt, especially as, in particular circumstances, oxygen can be harmful because of its oxidative characteristics.

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Orban, JC., Singer, M. (2018). Oxygen and Oxidative Stress. In: Ichai, C., Quintard, H., Orban, JC. (eds) Metabolic Disorders and Critically Ill Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64010-5_20

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