Effects of hypoxia on the energy status and nitrogen metabolism of African lungfish during aestivation in a mucus cocoon

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

Volumn 178, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 853-865

  Loong, A M ^a   Ang, S F ^a   Wong, W P ^a   Portner H O ^b   Bock, C ^b   Wittig, R ^b   Bridges, C R ^c   Chew, S F ^d   Ip, Y K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aestivation; Ammonia; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Hypoxia; Lungfish; Nitrogen metabolism; Protopterus annectens; Urea

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; FATTY ACID; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FISH; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTIVATION; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; FISHES; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOCREATINE; UREA;

PROTOPTERIDAE; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS;

EID: 49349103537     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-008-0273-9     Document Type: Article

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