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ALTHOUGH some experiments with tissue extracts of the oyster have proved the presence of an oxidase very similar to the cytochrome oxidase of higher animals1,2, it is still obscure whether the cytochrome system functions as terminal oxidase in the intact tissues of oysters, because even cytochrome has not been observed spectroscopically. Recently, Jodrey and Wilbur2 suggested that the cytochrome system may not play a major part in the oxidative metabolism of the oyster mantle (Crassostrea virginica), since methylene blue (1.4 × 10−5 M) did not reverse the cyanide inhibition of the tissue.
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KAWAI, K. Cytochrome System in Oyster Tissues. Nature 181, 1468 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811468a0
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