Studies on the extra- and intracellular acid-base status and its role on metabolic depression in the land snail Helix lucorum (L.) during estivation

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 347-354

  Michaelidis, B ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acid base status; Estivation; Land snail; Metabolic depression

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HELIX (SNAIL); HEMOLYMPH; METABOLISM; PH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTIVATION; HELIX (SNAILS); HEMOLYMPH; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 0036931549     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-002-0262-3     Document Type: Article

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