Effects of anoxia on the extra- and intracellular acid-base status in the land snail Helix lucorum (L.): Lack of evidence for a relationship between pyruvate kinase down-regulation and acid-base status

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1667-1675

  Michaelidis, Basile ^a   Pallidou, Artemis ^a   Vakouftsi, Paraskevi ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acid base status; Anoxia; Helix lucorum; Land snail; Pyruvate kinase

Indexed keywords

HELIX LUCORUM;

EID: 0033022822     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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