Lipid, ketone body and oxidative metabolism in the African lungfish, Protopterus dolloi following 60 days of fasting and aestivation

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-101

  Frick, Natasha Therese ^a   Bystriansky, Jason Scott ^b   Ip, Yuen Kwong ^c   Chew, Shit Fun ^d   Ballantyne, James Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aerobic metabolism; Aestivation; Cytochrome c oxidase; Ketone body metabolism; Lipid metabolism; Metabolic depression; Protopterus

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; 3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LIPID; SUCCINIC ACID;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; GILL; HEART; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOLYSIS; LIVER; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UPREGULATION;

PROTOPTERIDAE; PROTOPTERUS; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI;

EID: 47949099848     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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