Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity

Viscosity increases with decreased temperature. The author argues that loss of hemoglobin is a “disaptation” or evolutionary loss of function which confers a competitive advantage in Antarctic waters because of decreased blood viscosity. Because the likelihood of developing turbulent flow is inverse...

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Main Author: Gregory Sloop
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2020
Subjects:
blood viscosity
Antarctic fish. icefish. antifreeze glycoprotein
notothenioids
Antarc*
Antarctic
Icefish
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323394
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spelling ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4323394 2024-09-15T17:40:33+00:00 Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity Gregory Sloop 2020-12-12 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323394 unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/bloodviscosityinterestgroup https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4319242 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323394 oai:zenodo.org:4323394 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode blood viscosity Antarctic fish. icefish. antifreeze glycoprotein notothenioids info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.432339410.5281/zenodo.4319242 2024-07-26T19:30:30Z Viscosity increases with decreased temperature. The author argues that loss of hemoglobin is a “disaptation” or evolutionary loss of function which confers a competitive advantage in Antarctic waters because of decreased blood viscosity. Because the likelihood of developing turbulent flow is inversely related to viscosity, a minimum degree of blood viscosity is necessary. Also, pathologically high shear caused by insufficient viscosity will activate or damage the formed elements of blood such as leukocytes and platelets. The necessary viscosity in icefish is provided by antifreeze glycoproteins. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Icefish Zenodo
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Antarctic fish. icefish. antifreeze glycoprotein
notothenioids
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Antarctic fish. icefish. antifreeze glycoprotein
notothenioids
Gregory Sloop
Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity
topic_facet blood viscosity
Antarctic fish. icefish. antifreeze glycoprotein
notothenioids
description Viscosity increases with decreased temperature. The author argues that loss of hemoglobin is a “disaptation” or evolutionary loss of function which confers a competitive advantage in Antarctic waters because of decreased blood viscosity. Because the likelihood of developing turbulent flow is inversely related to viscosity, a minimum degree of blood viscosity is necessary. Also, pathologically high shear caused by insufficient viscosity will activate or damage the formed elements of blood such as leukocytes and platelets. The necessary viscosity in icefish is provided by antifreeze glycoproteins.
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author Gregory Sloop
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title Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity
title_short Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity
title_full Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity
title_fullStr Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity
title_full_unstemmed Antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity
title_sort antarctic fishes: experiments of nature which demonstrate the fundamental importance of blood viscosity
publisher Zenodo
publishDate 2020
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323394
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Antarctic
Icefish
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Icefish
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