Abstract
Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning looks at the biochemistry of our snot, spit, and tears To download a pdf of this article, visit http://cenm.ag/snotspittears. References used to create this graphic: Bardow, Allan, Dennis Moe, Bente Nyvad, and Birgitte Nauntofte. “The Buffer Capacity and Buffer Systems of Human Whole Saliva Measured without Loss of CO2.” Arch. Oral Biol. (Jan. 2000). DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9969(99)00119-3 . Fenna, R., J. Zeng, and C. Davey. “Structure of the Green Heme in Myeloperoxidase.” Arch. Biochem. Biophys. (Jan. 1995). DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1995.1086. Kirby, Anthony J. “The Lysozyme Mechanism Sorted—after 50 Years.” Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. (Sept. 2001). DOI: 10.1038/nsb0901-737. A collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest To see more of Brunning’s work, go to compoundchem.com. To see all of C&EN’s Periodic Graphics, visit http://cenm.ag/periodicgraphics .
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