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AN explanation has been offered1 for the action of potassium salts2, 3 in inhibiting the Pasteur effect and in increasing the respiration of brain. It was suggested that normally in oxygen only part of the cell-enzymes which attack carbohydrates are accessible to their substrates, and that respiratory energy is responsible for the maintenance of this inaccessibility ; in anærobiosis the enzymes are supposed to be fully accessible. Potassium salts affect the cell-enzymes so as to make them fully accessible.
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DIXON, K. Inhibition of the Pasteur Effect. Nature 137, 742 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137742a0
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