Hypoxia and Medicine

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Summary: to hypoxia has been appreciated for over a century 1 but the biochemistry underlying this response remains poorly understood Here we define a pathway in which increased minute ventilation E is signalled by deoxyhaemoglobin derived S nitrosothiols SNOs Specifically we demonstrate that S nitrosocysteinyl glycine CGSNO and S nitroso l cysteine l CSNO but not

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