Working underground: Respiratory adaptations in the blind mole rat

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2062-2067

  Widmer, Hans R ^a,d   Hoppeler, Hans ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^c   Taylor, C Richard ^b   Weibel, Ewald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOGLOBIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; METABOLIC RATE; MOLE RAT; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; SPALACINAE; SPALAX; SPALAX EHRENBERGI;

EID: 0031043096     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.5.2062     Document Type: Article

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