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Oxygen homeostasis
2 Nov 2009
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Abstract Metazoan life is dependent upon the utilization of O 2 for essential metabolic processes and oxygen homeostasis is an organizing principle for understanding metazoan evolution, ontology, physiology, and pathology. Hypoxia‐inducible factor 1 (HIF‐1) is a transcription factor that is expressed by all metazoan species and functions as a master regulator of oxygen homeostasis. Recent studies have elucidated...
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