Myoglobin content in skeletal muscles of hibernating ground squirrels rises in autumn and winter

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-37

  Postnikova, Galina B ^a   Tselikova, Svetlana V ^a   Kolaeva, Stella G ^a   Solomonov, Nikita G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CRYOLITHOZONE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ground squirrel; Hibernation; Myoglobin content; Oxygen supply; Seasonal changes

Indexed keywords

MYOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HIBERNATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SQUIRREL; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; CITELLUS; CITELLUS UNDULATUS; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0032824199     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00085-9     Document Type: Article

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