Selective brain cooling and its vascular basis in diving seals

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2610-2616

  Blix, Arnoldus Schytte ^a   Walløe, Lars ^b   Messelt, Edward B ^b   Folkow, Lars P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arterio venous shunt; Harp seal pagophilus groenlandicus; Hooded seal cystophora cristata; Hypoxia; Rete; Vascular heat exchange

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CYTOLOGY; DIVING; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIVING; HEART RATE; PINNIPEDIA; SEALS, EARLESS;

CYSTOPHORA (MAMMALIA); CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; PHOCA GROENLANDICA;

EID: 77954840613     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.040345     Document Type: Article

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