Toxic oxygen: The radical life-giver

Doris Abele
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Doris Abele: Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research, Columbusstrasse

Nature, 2002, vol. 420, issue 6911, 27-27

Abstract: A primary function of mitochondria may have been to compartmentalize respiration, thus protecting cells from the damaging side-effects of oxygen metabolism.

Date: 2002
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