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. 1990 Oct 15;272(1-2):1-6.
doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80436-m.

Pathobiochemistry of CO poisoning

L J Young  1 , W S Caughey
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Pathobiochemistry of CO poisoning

L J Young et al. FEBS Lett. .
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Abstract

A hypothesis for the pathobiochemical mechanism of CO poisoning, amenable to in vivo testing with optical reflectance spectrophotometry, is presented. It differs from the classical formulation in which loss of cytochrome c oxidase function is attributed entirely to O2 depletion, by including ligation and oxygenation of CO as essential components of the inhibitory process.

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