I: General Aspects of Oxygen. - 1 Perspective on the History of Oxygen and Life. - 2 Historical Introduction to the Free Radical Theory of Oxygen Toxicity. - 3 Reactive Forms of Oxygen. - 4 The Origin and Astronomical History of Terrestrial Oxygen. - 5 Significance of Oxygen on Earth. - II: Biology of Oxygen. - 6 Photosynthetic Oxygen Production. - 7 Oxygen Toxicity in Unicellular Organisms. - 8 Oxygen Exchange in the Metazoa. - 9 Facilitated Oxygen Diffusion by Oxygen Carriers. - 10 The Reaction of Oxygen with Cytochrome Oxidase: The Role of Sequestered Intermediates. - 11 Biochemical Aspects of Oxygen Toxicity in the Metazoa. - 12 Antioxidant Defenses. - 13 Superoxide Radical and Superoxide Dismutases. - III: Human Aspects of Oxygen. - 14 Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity. - 15 Oxygen in Closed Environmental Systems. - 16 Oxygen Tension in the Clinical Situation. - 17 Retinopathy of Prematurity and the Role of Oxygen. - IV: Concluding Remarks. - 18 Oxygen: An Overall Biological View. - V. Summary. - Inde. Language: English