Adaptations to diving hypoxia in the heart, kidneys and splanchnic organs of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4139-4154

  Fuson, Amanda L ^a,d   Cowan, Daniel F ^b   Kanatous, Shane B ^c   Polasek, Lori K ^a   Davis, Randall W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Diving; Harbor seal; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Phoca vitulina

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVING; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEART MUSCLE; KIDNEY; LIVER; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHOCA; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

3-HYDROXYACYL COA DEHYDROGENASES; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DIVING; DOGS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; KIDNEY; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; SEALS, EARLESS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; OTARIIDAE; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 0344584498     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00654     Document Type: Article

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