Blood-gas properties of plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 372-375

  Wei, Deng Bang ^a,b   Wei, Lian ^b   Zhang, Jian Mei ^b   Yu, Hong Yan ^b  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b QINGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blind subterranean mole rat; Blood gas; Hypercapnia; Hypoxia; Pikas (Ochotona curzniae); Plateau zokors (Myospalax baileyi); Qinghai Tibet plateau; Sprague Dawley rat

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PH; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; RAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VENOUS BLOOD;

EOSPALAX BAILEYI; OCHOTONA; OCHOTONIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 33749551732     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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