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Oxygen and Animal Metabolism: General and Comparative Aspects

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OXYGEN: Basis of the Regulation of Vital Functions in the Fetus

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Oxygen is the most abundant chemical element in the earth’s crust, it accounts for about 47% of the weight of the solid crust, and 88.8% of the hydrosphere. Bound in these inorganic compounds, oxygen cannot be used directly for animal metabolism. It is the free molecular dioxygen O2 (less than 0.01% of the total oxygen in the earth crust) that is of eminent biological importance. Another form of molecular oxygen, the trioxygen ozone — concentrated in the ozone layer, 15–30 km above the earth’s surface — is of indirect benefit because it protects organisms from radiation damage by absorbing most of the solar ultraviolet radiation.

Work from the author’s laboratory has been supported by grants form the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, D-5300 Bonn

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    Wolfgang Künzel (Gf. Direktor der Frauenklinik und Hebammenschule) (Gf. Direktor der Frauenklinik und Hebammenschule)

  2. Frauenklinik der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Klinikstraße 32, 6300, Gießen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

    Michael Kirschbaum

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Wegener, G. (1992). Oxygen and Animal Metabolism: General and Comparative Aspects. In: Künzel, W., Kirschbaum, M. (eds) OXYGEN: Basis of the Regulation of Vital Functions in the Fetus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77469-0_2

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