Respiratory consequences of feeding in the snake Python molorus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 359-365

  Overgaard, Johannes ^a,b   Busk, Morten ^a   Hicks, James W ^a,c   Jensen, Frank B ^a   Wang, Tobias ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acid base balance; Alkaline tide; Arterial blood gases; Feeding; Metabolic rate; Python molorus; Reptile; Snake; Specific dynamic action; Ventilatory responses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; DIGESTION; FOOD INTAKE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SNAKE;

ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; PYTHONIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032697896     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00127-0     Document Type: Article

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