Intracellular Respiration

Abstract

The previous chapters have been concerned with those struc­tures involved in the extraction of oxygen from the environment and the means by which this oxygen is transported to the tissues to enable energy to be produced from the breakdown of nutrients ingested by the animal. While it is beyond the scope of this book to give a detailed consideration of the biochemical pro­cesses involved it is necessary for completeness to consider their nature in outline. Indeed they are known in detail only in the vertebrates and it is from these rather than from the inverte­brates that much of the basic information is drawn.