Circulation, Respiration, and Metabolism: Current Comparative Approaches

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Respiratory, Circulatory, and Metabolic Adjustments to Exercise in Fish....Pages 2-22
Respiratory and Cardiovascular Adjustments to Exercise in Reptiles....Pages 23-38
Exercise in Normally Ventilating and Apnoeic Birds....Pages 39-55
Muscle Function During Locomotion in Mammals....Pages 56-63
Cardiopulmonary System Responses to Muscular Exercise in Man....Pages 64-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Gas Transport Properties of Fish Blood....Pages 82-90
Ammonia Transfer Across Fish Gills:A Review....Pages 91-100
The Regulation of Cutaneous Gas Exchange in Vertebrates....Pages 101-113
Ventilation-Perfusion Relationships in Amphibia....Pages 114-124
Mechanisms of Intracardiac Shunting in Reptiles....Pages 125-138
Gas Exchange in Intermittently Breathing Turtles....Pages 139-148
Cardiopulmonary Adaptations in Birds for Exercise at High Altitude....Pages 149-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Low and High Power Output Modes of Anaerobic Metabolism: Invertebrate and Vertebrate Strategies....Pages 166-192
Metabolic Biochemistry of Insect Flight....Pages 193-207
Lactate:Glycolytic End Product and Oxidative Substrate During Sustained Exercise in Mammals — The “Lactate Shuttle”....Pages 208-218
Closed Systems: Resolving Potentially Conflicting Demands of Diving and Exercise in Marine Mammals....Pages 219-226
Thoroughbreds and Greyhounds: Biochemical Adaptations in Creatures of Nature and of Man....Pages 227-239
Exercise Limitations at High Altitude: The Metabolic Problem and Search for Its Solution....Pages 240-249
Scaling of Oxidative and Glycolytic Enzyme Activities in Fish Muscle....Pages 250-262
Enzyme Catalysed Fluxes in Metabolic Systems. Why Control of Such Fluxes is Shared Among All Components of the System....Pages 263-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Metabolism of Invertebrate Red Cells: A Vacuum in Our Knowledge....Pages 280-289
Sugar Uptake by Red Blood Cells....Pages 290-300
The Relationship Between Erythrocyte Phosphate Metabolism, Carbon Dioxide, and pH on Blood Oxygen Affinity in Birds....Pages 301-311
ATP Metabolism in Mammalian Red Blood Cells....Pages 312-321
Erythropoiesis: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms....Pages 322-332
Mechanisms of the Maturation of the Reticulocyte....Pages 333-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Molluscan Circulation: Haemodynamics and the Heart....Pages 344-355
Cardiac Energy Metabolism in Relation to Work Demand and Habitat in Bivalve and Gastropod Mollusks....Pages 356-366
Role of Free Amino Acids in the Oxidative Metabolism of Cephalopod Hearts....Pages 367-376
Cardiovascular and Hemodynamic Energetics of Fishes....Pages 377-385
Relationship Between Cardiac Energy Metabolism and Cardiac Work Demand in Fishes....Pages 386-401
Effects of Hypoxia and Acidosis on Fish Heart Performance....Pages 402-411
Front Matter....Pages 413-413
Alphastat Regulation of Intracellular Acid-Base State?....Pages 414-423
Intracellular pH Regulation of Renal-Epithelial Cells....Pages 424-436
 31 P NMR Studies of Intracellular pH in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle....Pages 437-447
The Role of Intracellular pH in Hormone Action....Pages 448-463
Intracellular pH in Response to Ambient Changes: Homeostatic or Adaptive Responses....Pages 464-473
The Activation of Protein Synthesis by Intracellular pH....Pages 474-482
Regulatory Mechanisms of Intracellular pH in Excitable Cells....Pages 483-487
Front Matter....Pages 489-489
Seasonal Acclimation and Thermogenesis....Pages 490-501
Front Matter....Pages 489-489
Biochemical Mechanisms of Thermogenesis....Pages 502-518
Neural Control of Mammalian Hibernation....Pages 519-530
Physiological and Biochemical Aspects of Mammalian Hibernation....Pages 531-542
The Adaptation of Membrane Structure and Lipid Composition to Cold....Pages 543-552
Biochemical Adaptation to the Freezing Environment — Structure, Biosynthesis and Regulation of Fish Antifreeze Polypeptides....Pages 553-563
Back Matter....Pages 565-568