Biochemistry and physiological importance of heme proteins as oxygen sensors

Oxygen Sensing: Responses and Adaption to Hypoxia

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 6-22

  Gilles Gonzalez, Marie Alda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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