Pasteur effect
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Pasteur effect
or (formerly) Pasteur-Meyerhof effect either the phenomenon that occurs in facultatively anaerobic cells whereby oxygen inhibits glycolysis or fermentation, or its converse whereby the rate of glycolysis or fermentation increases when oxygen is excluded. Compare Crabtree effect. [After Louis Pasteur (1822 — 95), French chemist, microbiologist, and immunologist.]
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