Control of respiration in flight muscle from the high-altitude bar-headed goose and low-altitude birds

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Scott, Graham R ^a   Richards, Jeffrey G ^a   Milsom, William K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

High altitude adaptation; Hypoxia tolerance; Mitochondrial metabolism; Phylogenetically independent contrasts; Physiological evolution

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GLYCOLYTIC ENZYME; MITOCHONDRIAL CREATINE KINASE;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GOOSE; HYPOXIA; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL RESPIRATION; CREATINE; CREATINE KINASE, MITOCHONDRIAL FORM; DUCKS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEESE; GLYCOLYSIS; KINETICS; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 70349631625     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00241.2009     Document Type: Article

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