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Warburg apparatus

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A device used in biochemistry for measuring breathing (respiration) by tissues.

Tissue slices are enclosed in a chamber in which the temperature and pressure are monitored, and the amount of gas produced or consumed by the tissue is measured.</P> The Warburg apparatus was invented by the German biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970), a pioneer in research on the respiration of cells and the metabolism of tumors.

Warburg won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1931.

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