Enzymatic profiles of skeletal muscles from harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and fin whales (Balaenoptera physalis) ...
The enzymatic organization of muscle tissue usually is examined in only a select few muscles of any one animal species. However, because the functional demands placed on individual muscles can vary so widely from muscle to muscle, it is inappropriate to generalize findings from one or two muscles to...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0100467 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0100467 |
| Summary: | The enzymatic organization of muscle tissue usually is examined in only a select few muscles of any one animal species. However, because the functional demands placed on individual muscles can vary so widely from muscle to muscle, it is inappropriate to generalize findings from one or two muscles to muscle tissue in general. The differences or similarities in metabolic machinery between skeletal muscles of a wide functional range provides crucial information with respect to a particular animals' whole body metabolism. Nowhere is this understanding more important than in the diving marine mammal which must operate as a closed system (with respect to oxygen supply) while submerged. The goals of this thesis are: 1) to provide a broad body of information on the metabolic organization of a large cross-section of marine mammal muscles, both functionally and with regard to location, 2) to assess the implications of the enzyme differences between muscles to the diving habit, and 3) to compare the metabolic ... |
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