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Dissociation Curves of Toad Haemoglobin and a Hypothesis for the Cause of Hibernation

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IT is well known that the affinity of haemoglobin for oxygen varies according to the conditions in which the measurements are made1.

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    TERSILIO LEGGIO & GIORGIO MORPURGO

  2. Institute of Genetics, University of Rome,

    TERSILIO LEGGIO & GIORGIO MORPURGO

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LEGGIO, T., MORPURGO, G. Dissociation Curves of Toad Haemoglobin and a Hypothesis for the Cause of Hibernation. Nature 219, 493–494 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219493a0

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