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WHEN disks of tissue are cut from storage organs and washed for periods of several hours or more, their respiratory rate increases markedly. A recent paper1 has suggested that this increase in respiratory rate is due to the removal of methionine from the tissue. The work reported here examines this question further.
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THURMAN, D., WOOD, J., TAYLOR, I. et al. Methionine Content and Respiratory Levels in Beetroot Disks. Nature 200, 491–492 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200491a0
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