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Oxygen Flux across the Environmental Interface of Teleost Cornea

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WHILE the use of oxygen directly from the environment by mammalian cornea was long suspected and had even been shown qualitatively, oxygen uptake by the human cornea in vivo has only recently been measured1–3.

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HILL, R., SCHOESSLER, J. & FATT, I. Oxygen Flux across the Environmental Interface of Teleost Cornea. Nature 214, 384–385 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214384b0

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