The Antarctic hemoglobinless icefish, fifty five years later: A unique cardiocirculatory interplay of disaptation and phenotypic plasticity

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-28

  Garofalo, F ^a   Pellegrino, D ^a   Amelio, D ^a   Tota, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Heart; Hemoglobin; Hypoxia; Icefish; Myoglobin; Nitric oxide; Nitrite; Notothenioids; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MYOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN;

ANTARCTICA; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOMEGALY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RESPIRATION; CIRCULATION; COLD; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FREEZING; FRIGIDITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITAT; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CAPILLARY; HEART OUTPUT; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOSTASIS; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELEOST; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION; VERTEBRATE;

CHANNICHTHYIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67649961274     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.04.621     Document Type: Review

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