Erythrocytes: Surveyors as well as purveyors of oxygen?

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Pittman, Roland N ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INSULIN; OXYGEN;

BIOSENSOR; CELL FUNCTION; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD CIRCULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; INSULIN; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 77952648609     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00285.2010     Document Type: Editorial

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