Elucidating the responses and role of the cardiovascular system in crocodilians during diving: Fifty years on from the work of C.G. Wilber

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Axelsson, Michael ^a   Franklin, Craig E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Cardiac output; Cardiovascular; Diving; Foramen of Panizza; Haemodynamic; Heart; Pulmonary perfusion; Reptile; Shunting; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BICARBONATE; BOMBESIN; BRADYKININ; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENDOTHELIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; SUBSTANCE P;

ALLIGATOR; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; DIVING; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HYPOTENSION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MITRAL VALVE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY SHUNT; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TELEMETRY; VAGUS NERVE; VASCULARIZATION;

ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); REPTILIA;

EID: 79959796837     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.05.015     Document Type: Review

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