Mechanisms of Systemic Regulation

TOC: This volume presents aspects of cellular mechanisms and generalized functions related to import and export of substance, intracorporeal transfer and maintenance of the overall status of animals: gas exchange, with special emphasis on cutaneous mechanisms, the role of carbonic anhydrase for CO2 elimination in aquatic animals, the interaction between blood gas transport and metabolic function in the swim bladder, and the regulation of ventilation by CO2/pH chemoreceptors at various locations; the ionic control mechanisms affecting oxygen transport in nucleated erythrocytes of fish species; the mechanisms governing central vascular circulation and the separation of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in reptilia; the effects of phylogenetic and ontogenetic development on the regulation of circulation in amphibia; the physiological function of the venolymphatic system and the branchial secondary circulation in amphibia and fishes.