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This paper reports experiments that examine whether the functional unit of hemoglobin in the blood of mammalian embryos is the tetramer. This has generally been assumed to be the case in all mammalian blood - adult, fetal and embryonic, although measurements on blood from other classes of vertebrates have indicated that the functional unit may contain more than four subunits.
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Holland, R.A.B., Calvert, S.J. (1994). High Cooperativity of Hemoglobin-Oxygen Binding in Embryonic Rabbit Blood. In: Vaupel, P., Zander, R., Bruley, D.F. (eds) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XV. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 345. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2468-7_21
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