Intermittent hypoxia and plasticity of respiratory chemoreflexes in metamorphic bullfrog tadpoles

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-72

  Simard, Edith ^a   Trépanier, Geneviève ^a   Larochelle, Jacques ^a   Kinkead, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Bullfrog; Chemoreflex respiratory; Development; Hypoxia; Hypoxia intermittent; Metamorphic bullfrog tadpoles; Rana catesbeiana tadpole

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; CHEEK; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GILL; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG VENTILATION; METABOLIC RATE; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE;

EID: 0347298755     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-9048(03)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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