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Respiratory Activity of Rat Intestinal Mitochondria

Nature volume 210, pages 422–423 (1966)Cite this article

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THE difficulty of measuring the respiratory activity of intestinal homogenates and of mitochondria isolated from the small-intestinal mucosa of the rat has been recorded by others1–3. The inhibition of succinoxidase activity reported by Nakamura et al.1 was later shown by Stanbury2 to be associated with the release of the unsaturated oleic and linoleic fatty acids. This inhibition was partly overcome by the addition of rat serum1. The present study was undertaken to examine more fully the protective effect of serum, as a preliminary to the study of the respiratory activity of the jejunal mitochondria of the rat infected with the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis.

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SYMONS, L. Respiratory Activity of Rat Intestinal Mitochondria. Nature 210, 422–423 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210422a0

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