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IT is often of great convenience in physiological work to secure continuous rather than intermittent records of the variables under investigation. Recently an apparatus was described for analysing continuously the gas mixture presented to infants undergoing treatment in nursery incubators1, and an extension of this principle has now been used in some animal experiments with the view of examining the response of the organism to changes in oxygen content of its inspired air. By a combination of such records it should be possible to derive an estimate of the minimal change in inspired oxygen which will produce a significant change in the peripheral tissues of the animal or infant.
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KAY, R., COXON, R. Simultaneous Recording of Inspired Oxygen Concentration and Peripheral Tissue Oxygenation. Nature 177, 45–46 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177045a0
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