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Glycogen Fuels Survival During Hyposmotic-Anoxic Stress in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics - 1 Sept 2015
LaMacchia John C, Frazier Harold N, Roth Mark B
Abstract excerpt
Oxygen is an absolute requirement for multicellular life. Animals that are deprived of oxygen for sufficient periods of time eventually become injured and die. This is largely due to the fact that, without oxygen, animals are unable to generate sufficient quantities of energy. In human diseases triggered by oxygen deprivation, such as heart attack and stroke, hyposmotic stress and cell swelling (edema) arise in...
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