Quantification of diffusion distance within the spongy myocardium of hearts from antarctic fishes

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-80

  O'Brien, K M ^a   Xue, Huijie ^a   Sidell, B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion, myocardium; Fish, Antarctic (Gobionotothen gibberifrons, Chionodraco rastrospinosus, Chaenocephalus aceratus); Heart, myocardial diffusion distance; Methods, stereology; Muscle, cardiac, diffusion distance; Oxygen binding proteins (Antarctic fish)

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; FISH; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; DIFFUSION; FISHES; HEART; HEMOGLOBINS; MITOCHONDRIA, HEART; MYOCARDIUM; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

EID: 0033883408     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(00)00139-0     Document Type: Article

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