Respiratory responses to short term hypoxia in the snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 223-231

  Frische, Sebastian ^a   Fago, Angela ^a   Altimiras, Jordi ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood pH; Bohr effect; Heart rate; Hypoxia; Organic phosphates; Respiration; Shunt; Turtle

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BOHR EFFECT; BREATHING; HEART RATE; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; TURTLE;

CHELYDRA SERPENTINA; CHELYDRIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033868947     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00201-4     Document Type: Article

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