Carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism in fasting and aestivating African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-92

  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

Aestivation; Amino acid metabolism; Carbohydrate metabolism; Glycogen; Glycolysis; Lactate; Protopterus

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOGEN; HEXOKINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVATE KINASE;

(PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI; ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FISH; GILL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOGENOLYSIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HEART; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMA OSMOLARITY; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE WATER;

PROTOPTERIDAE; PROTOPTERUS; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI;

EID: 47949120767     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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