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BIOT1 first described the active secretion of oxygen gas. He found the gas mixture in the swim-bladders of fish captured from great depths in the Mediterranean to consist of 85 per cent of oxygen. At the hydrostatic pressure of 100 atmospheres obtaining at these depths, the partial pressure of oxygen in the swim-bladder must have been 85 atmospheres. Biot announced that the oxygen had entered the swim-bladder through “secretion”, and his discovery has been abundantly verified2–4. However, no other instances of oxygen secretion have been obtained despite the interest of a number of physiologists, notably Krogh and J. S. Haldane. We have now found large oxygen tensions in the eyes of marine teleosts.
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WITTENBERG, J., WITTENBERG, B. Active Secretion of Oxygen into the Eye of Fish. Nature 194, 106–107 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194106a0
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