Urea loading enhances postfreeze performance of frog skeletal muscle

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 413-420

  Costanzo, Jon P ^a   Marjanovic, Marina ^b   Fincel, Elizabeth A ^b   Lee Jr , Richard E ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryoprotectant; Freeze tolerance; Leopard frog; Muscle; Osmolyte; Wood frog

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; UREA; WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FROG; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERMOREGULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANA PIPIENS; RANIDAE; SEASONS; UREA; WATER;

ANURA; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 43149107176     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-007-0233-9     Document Type: Article

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