Anatomical position of heart in snakes with vertical orientation: A new hypothesis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 403-405

  Badeer, Henry S ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arboreal (climbing) snakes; counterbalancing principle; filling pressure; gravitational pressure; HIP; terrestrial (nonclimbing) snakes

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GRAVITY; HEART; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; SNAKE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); HEAD; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; COMPLIANCE; GRAVITATION; HEAD; HEART; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ORIENTATION; SNAKES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PRESSURE; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 0031596797     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(97)00444-3     Document Type: Article

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