Carnitine palmitoyl transferase activity and whole muscle oxidation rates vary with fatty acid substrate in avian flight muscles

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

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 565-573

  Price, Edwin R ^a   Staples, James F ^a   Milligan, C Louise ^a   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Carnitine acyltransferase; Exercise; Migration; Peak metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FAT INTAKE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SONGBIRD; SPARROW;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; DIETARY FATS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SONGBIRDS; SPARROWS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PHILOMACHUS PUGNAX; STURNUS VULGARIS; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 79953861228     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-010-0542-2     Document Type: Article

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