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Cardio-Respiratory Control in Vertebrates

Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Mogens L. Glass

    1. Fac. Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

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  2. Stephen C. Wood

    1. School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, U.S.A.

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  • Readers profit from an integrated and progressive exposition of vertebrate evolution

  • Incorporates an amazing amount of new findings on vertebrate

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Respiratory Physiology of Birds: Metabolic Control

    1. Control of Breathing in Birds: Implications for High-Altitude Flight

      • G. R. Scott, W. K. Milsom
      Pages 429-448

  2. Mammalian and Human Physiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 450-450
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    2. Peripheral Chemoreceptors in Mammals: Structure, Function and Transduction

      • P. Kumar
      Pages 451-473

    3. Central Chemosensitivity in Mammals

      • L. K. Hartzler, R. W. Putnam
      Pages 475-500

    4. Human Exercise Physiology

      • S. Volianitis, Niels H. Secher
      Pages 501-538

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 539-546
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Hopefully, this book will be taken off of the shelf frequently to be studied carefully over many years. More than 40 researchers were involved in this project, which examines respiration, circulation, and metabolism from ?sh to the land vertebrates, including human beings. A breathable and stable atmosphere ?rst appeared about 500 million years ago. Oxygen levels are not stable in aquatic environments and exclusively water-breathing ?sh must still cope with the ever-changing levels of O 2 and with large temperature changes. This is re?ected in their sophisticated count- current systems, with high O extraction and internal and external O receptors. 2 2 The conquest for the terrestrial environment took place in the late Devonian period (355–359 million years ago), and recent discoveries portray the gradual transitional evolution of land vertebrates. The oxygen-rich and relatively stable atmospheric conditionsimpliedthatoxygen-sensingmechanismswererelativelysimpleandl- gain compared with acid–base regulation. Recently, physiology has expanded into related ?elds such as biochemistry, molecular biology, morphology and anatomy. In the light of the work in these ?elds, the introduction of DNA-based cladograms, which can be used to evaluate the likelihood of land vertebrates and lung?sh as a sister group, could explain why their cardio-respiratory control systems are similar. The diffusing capacity of a duck lung is 40 times higher than that of a toad or lung?sh. Certainly, some animals have evolved to rich high-performance levels.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

    Mogens L. Glass

  • School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, U.S.A.

    Stephen C. Wood

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