Oxygen availability causes morphological changes and a different vegf/fik-1/hif-2 expression pattern in sea bass gills

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-111

  Rinaldi, Liliana ^a   Basso, Patrizia ^a   Tettamanti, Gianluca ^a   Grimaldi, Annalisa ^a   Terova, Genciana ^a   Saroglia, Marco ^a   de Eguileor, Magda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hyperoxia; Hypoxia; Hypoxia inducible factor; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

FISH CULTURE; HYPOXIA; MORPHOLOGY;

DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; SERRANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22144495714     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250000509356660     Document Type: Article

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