Circulating nitric oxide metabolites and cardiovascular changes in the turtle Trachemys scripta during normoxia, anoxia and reoxygenation

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2560-2566

  Jacobsen, Søren B ^a   Hansen, Marie N ^b   Jensen, Frank B ^b   Skovgaard, Nini ^a   Wang, Tobias ^a   Fago, Angela ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Haemoglobin; Iron nitrosyl; Nitrite; Nitrite reductase; Oxygen; S nitrosothiol; Thiol

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTE; HEART; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TURTLE; VEIN;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ARTERIES; ERYTHROCYTES; HEART; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LUMINESCENCE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; OXYGEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TURTLES; VEINS;

TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861639263     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.070367     Document Type: Article

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