Increased blood oxygen affinity during digestion in the snake Python molurus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 205, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3327-3334

  Overgaard, Johannes ^a   Wang, Tobias ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acid base balance; Arterial blood gases; Blood oxygen binding; Feeding; Oxygen transport; Python molurus; Reptile; Snake

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORIDE; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DIET RESTRICTION; DIGESTION; OSMOLARITY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BICARBONATES; BOIDAE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORIDES; DIGESTION; FASTING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM;

ANIMALIA; PYTHON MOLURUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0036853359     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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