The diving paradox: New insights into the role of the dive response in air-breathing vertebrates

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-268

  Davis, Randall W ^a   Polasek, Lori ^a   Watson, Rebecca ^a   Fuson, Amanda ^a   Williams, Terrie M ^b   Kanatous, Shane B ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aerobic metabolism; Air breathing vertebrates; Dive response; Hypoxia; Mitochondrial volume density; Model; Myoglobin; Weddell seal

Indexed keywords

MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BRAIN; BRAIN METABOLISM; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DIVER; DIVING; ERYTHROCYTE; EXERCISE; FORCE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART RATE; HYPOXIA; IMMERSION; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SARCOLEMMA; SEAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWIMMING; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4143146395     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.05.003     Document Type: Review

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