Contractile properties of the functionally divided python heart: Two sides of the same matter

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-173

  Zaar, Morten ^a   Overgaard, Johannes ^a   Gesser, Hans ^a   Wang, Tobias ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acidosis; Adenylate kinase; Blood pressure; Cardiac strips; Creatine kinase; Cytochrome oxidase; Hypoxia; Isometric force production; Pyruvate kinase; Python regius; Reptile; Snake; Twitch force

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG PRESSURE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION;

PYTHON REGIUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 33846616296     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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