Prolonged fasting increases purine recycling in post-weaned northern elephant seals

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1448-1455

  Soñanez Organis, José Guadalupe ^a   Vázquez Medina, José Pablo ^a   Zenteno Savín, Tania ^b   Aguilar, Andres ^a   Crocker, Daniel E ^c   Ortiz, Rudy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^c SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase; Northern elephant seal; Prolonged fasting; Purine metabolism; Xanthine oxidoreductase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; PURINE DERIVATIVE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOCA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PURINES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEALS, EARLESS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

EID: 84860211797     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.067173     Document Type: Article

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