Studies on the Oxidation-reduction of Hemoglobin and Methemoglobin

نویسنده

  • James M. Neill
چکیده

Hemoglobin is oxidized to methemoglobin by products formed during the oxidation of a number of different substances. With some of these substances, both oxygen consumption and hemoglobin oxidation are accelerated by thermolabile constituents of pneumococci; with others of the easily oxidized substances, neither reaction seems to be influenced by the presence of the bacterial substances. The same substances which in the presence of air induce the oxidation of hemoglobin bring about the reverse reaction if molecular oxygen is excluded.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine

دوره 41  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004