Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10819054 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 2005 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Our data show that digesting rattlesnakes exhibit respiratory compensations to the alkaline tide, whereas artificially induced metabolic acid-base disturbances of same magnitude remain uncompensated. It seems difficult to envision that the central and peripheral chemoreceptors would experience different stimuli during these conditions. One explanation for the different ventilatory responses could be that digestion induces a more relaxed state with low responsiveness to ventilatory stimuli.
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Authors
Sine K. Arvedsen, Johnnie B. Andersen, Morten Zaar, Denis Andrade, Augusto S. Abe, Tobias Wang,