Exhaustive exercise training enhances aerobic capacity in American alligator (alligator mississippiensis)

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

Volumn 179, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 921-931

  Eme, John ^a   Owerkowicz, Tomasz ^a,b   Gwalthney, June ^a   Blank, Jason M ^a,b,c   Rourke, Bryan C ^d   Hicks, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alligator; Citrate synthase; Exercise; Metabolic rate; Oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HEMATOCRIT; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL EXERTION; RUNNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS POROSUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 70350400087     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-009-0374-0     Document Type: Article

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