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Blood and Tissue Oxygen Carriers

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Charlotte P. Mangum

    1. Department of Biology, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology (COMPARATIVE, volume 13)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Oxygen Carriers as Molecular Models of Allosteric Behavior

    • M. Brouwer
    Pages 1-21

  3. Plant Hemoglobins

    • W. H. Fuchsman
    Pages 23-58

  4. Functions of Cytoplasmic Hemoglobins and Myohemerythrin

    • J. B. Wittenberg
    Pages 59-85

  5. Structures of Red Blood Cell Hemoglobins

    • W. E. Royer Jr.
    Pages 87-116

  6. Respiratory Function of the Red Blood Cell Hemoglobins of Six Animal Phyla

    • Ch. P. Mangum
    Pages 117-149

  7. Molecular Structure/Function Relationships of Hemerythrins

    • D. M. Kurtz Jr.
    Pages 151-171

  8. Physiological Function of the Hemerythrins

    • Ch. P. Mangum
    Pages 173-192

  9. Molecular Structure of the Extracellular Heme Proteins

    • N. B. Terwilliger
    Pages 193-229

  10. Properties and Functions of Extracellular Heme Pigments

    • A. Toulmond
    Pages 231-256

  11. Molluscan Hemocyanins: Structure and Function

    • K. E. van Holde, K. I. Miller, W. H. Lang
    Pages 257-300

  12. Respiratory Function of the Molluscan Hemocyanins

    • Ch. P. Mangum
    Pages 301-323

  13. Molecular Structure of the Arthropod Hemocyanins

    • J. Markl, H. Decker
    Pages 325-376

  14. Respiratory Function of Arthropod Hemocyanins

    • J. P. Truchot
    Pages 377-410

  15. Structure-Function Relationships of the Ectothermic Vertebrate Hemoglobins

    • R. L. Ingermann
    Pages 411-431

  16. Respiratory Functions of Avian and Mammalian Hemoglobins

    • G. K. Snyder
    Pages 433-453

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 455-459
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Investigations of the oxygen carriers range from the characterization of natural populations to measurements of tenths of nanometer distances between atoms. The scope is so great that few biologists and biochemists can fully comprehend the primary literature in its entirety. In addition, the findings of the past two or three decades have advanced the field so rapidly that a truly current account is not readily accessible to a general audience. In recognition of the problem a symposium was held and its proceedings published in the American Zoologist in 1980. Although it included several research reports, most of the contributions were intended to summarize then state-of-the-art information on molecular structure and respiratory function at a level that could be understood by biologists and biochemists who are not experts on our subject. Judging from the reprint requests with which the authors were inundated, the assessment of need had been accurate. I believe that the need for an update, which is wholly focused on communication to the general audience, is even greater in 1992. I therefore asked the authors of this volume to address individuals who might otherwise turn in vain to an advanced textbook of physiology or biochemistry. I have, of course, requested a more comprehensive coverage than would be possible in a general text, but one that is not more parochial. Just as textbooks differ vastly in the level at which their subject matter is presented, so the level of non-expertise was conceived differently by the contributors to this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

    Charlotte P. Mangum

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