Partitioning of locomotor and feeding metabolism in sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria)

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Furnell

The swimming, feeding, and standard metabolic rates of the sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) were determined using tunnel and mass respirometers. Swimming metabolic rate was measured for fish in both digestive and nondigestive states. Comparison of power–performance curves for fed and starved states suggested that sablefish were able to allocate oxygen supply preferentially to locomotor muscles and suppress the oxygen demand of digestion when active. Reduced blood flow to the stomach, liver, and spleen during exercise has been observed in other species and may provide a physiological mechanism to explain the results obtained with sablefish.

1982 ◽  
Vol 243 (4) ◽  
pp. H628-H633 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Bacchus ◽  
S. W. Ely ◽  
R. M. Knabb ◽  
R. Rubio ◽  
R. M. Berne

The role of adenosine in matching myocardial oxygen supply to demand by regulating coronary blood flow has been the subject of intensive study. The present experiments were designed to determine the relationship among myocardial oxygen consumption, coronary blood flow, and adenosine production as estimated by pericardial adenosine accumulation under several physiological conditions in the same animal. Conscious chronically instrumented dogs were used to measure changes in coronary blood flow, myocardial oxygen consumption, and pericardial adenosine accumulation during two levels of treadmill exercise, excitement caused by loud noises, and feeding (the presentation and consumption of a meal). The results show significant increases in the adenosine production with all experimental procedures and significant linear correlations between myocardial oxygen consumption and coronary blood flow (r = 0.78), myocardial oxygen consumption and adenosine production (r = 0.73), and adenosine production and coronary blood flow (r = 0.88). These data show that increases in adenosine production by the normally oxygenated myocardium can be the physiological mechanism for matching oxygen supply to increased oxygen demand in the conscious dog.


1978 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 816-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Brett ◽  
J. M. Blackburn

The metabolic rate of spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, was determined in both a tunnel respirometer and a large, covered, circular tank (mass respirometer). Swimming performance was very poor in the respirometer, so that a power–performance curve could not be established. Instead, resting metabolic rates were determined, with higher rates induced by causing heavy thrashing (active metabolism). Routine metabolic rates were measured for the spontaneous activity characterizing behavior in the circular tank. For fish of 2 kg mean weight, the metabolic rates at 10 °C were 32.4 ± 2.6 SE (resting), 49.2 ± 5.0 SE (routine), and 88.4 ± 4.6 SE (active) mg O2∙kg−1∙h−1. Assuming that the routine rate represents a general energy expenditure in nature, this is equivalent to metabolizing about 3.8 kcal∙kg−1∙d−1 (15.9 × 103 J∙kg−1∙d−1). Key words: dogfish, metabolic rates, energetics, respiration


1979 ◽  
Vol 237 (6) ◽  
pp. E548 ◽  
Author(s):  
A P Shepherd

It has been postulated that local circulatory control mechanisms regulate the O2 flux to parenchymal cells by two vascular mechanisms: changes in blood flow that minimize capillary PO2 variations and changes in the density of the perfused capillary bed through which O2 extraction is regulated. To test this prediction, isolated loops of canine jejenum and ileum were perfused at either constant blood flow or constant pressure, and intraluminal glucose was used to increase metabolic rate. In the constant-flow series, glucose increased O2 extraction, O2 uptake, and rubidium extraction. Resistance fell when the metabolic rate was elevated. In the constant-pressure series, glucose increased blood flow, O2 extraction, O2 uptake, and capillary filtration coefficients. These results show that vascular resistance falls and that capillary density increases following an increase in oxygen demand. Thus, the glucose-stimulated gut loop seems to be a valid model of metabolic hyperemia, and its behavior would be difficult to reconcile with a purely myogenic theory of intestinal blood flow autoregulation.


1984 ◽  
Vol 247 (6) ◽  
pp. G617-G622
Author(s):  
A. P. Shepherd ◽  
G. L. Riedel

In a previous study of regional intestinal blood flow by laser-Doppler velocimetry, we noted that the mucosa displayed reactive hyperemia following arterial occlusion but that the muscularis did not. Therefore, to determine whether this observation is generally valid, we compared responses of the mucosa and muscularis externa to arterial occlusion. We measured total blood flow to isolated loops of canine small bowel with an electromagnetic flow probe on the supply artery; blood flow either in the mucosa or in the muscularis was measured by laser-Doppler velocimetry. Mucosal and total blood flow consistently showed reactive hyperemia in response to a 60-s occlusion, but the muscularis did not. To determine whether metabolic rate influenced reactive hyperemia, we increased enteric oxygen uptake by placing 5% bile and transportable solutes in the lumen; these agents increased oxygen consumption by 36%. After a 60-s occlusion, the durations of both total and mucosal reactive hyperemia were significantly prolonged by increased metabolic rate. Similarly, the payback-to-debt ratios in both total and mucosal blood flows were significantly increased at elevated metabolic rate. These data support the conclusions that reactive hyperemia occurs more frequently and has a greater magnitude in the mucosa compared with the muscularis and both total and mucosal reactive hyperemia are strongly influenced by the preocclusive oxygen demand. These findings therefore constitute further evidence that metabolic factors contribute to reactive hyperemia in the intestinal circulation.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elis Newham ◽  
Pamela G. Gill ◽  
Philippa Brewer ◽  
Michael J. Benton ◽  
Vincent Fernandez ◽  
...  

AbstractThere is uncertainty regarding the timing and fossil species in which mammalian endothermy arose, with few studies of stem-mammals on key aspects of endothermy such as basal or maximum metabolic rates, or placing them in the context of living vertebrate metabolic ranges. Synchrotron X-ray imaging of incremental tooth cementum shows two Early Jurassic stem-mammals, Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, had lifespans (a basal metabolic rate proxy) considerably longer than comparably sized living mammals, but similar to reptiles. Morganucodon also had femoral blood flow rates (a maximum metabolic rate proxy) intermediate between living mammals and reptiles. This shows maximum metabolic rates increased evolutionarily before basal rates, and that contrary to previous suggestions of a Triassic origin, Early Jurassic stem-mammals lacked the endothermic metabolism of living mammals.One Sentence SummarySurprisingly long lifespans and low femoral blood flow suggest reptile-like physiology in key Early Jurassic stem-mammals.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp L. Knaus ◽  
Anneke H. van Heteren ◽  
Jacqueline K. Lungmus ◽  
P. Martin Sander

Varanids are the only non-avian sauropsids that are known to approach the warm-blooded mammals in stamina. Furthermore, a much higher maximum metabolic rate (MMR) gives endotherms (including birds) higher stamina than crocodiles, turtles, and non-varanid lepidosaurs. This has led researchers to hypothesize that mammalian endothermy evolved as a second step after the acquisition of elevated MMR in non-mammalian therapsids from a plesiomorphic state of low metabolic rates. In recent amniotes, MMR correlates with the index of blood flow into the femur (Qi), which is calculated from femoral length and the cross-sectional area of the nutrient foramen. Thus, Qi may serve as an indicator of MMR range in extinct animals. Using the Qi proxy and phylogenetic eigenvector maps, here we show that elevated MMRs evolved near the base of Synapsida. Non-mammalian synapsids, including caseids, edaphosaurids, sphenacodontids, dicynodonts, gorgonopsids, and non-mammalian cynodonts, show Qi values in the range of recent endotherms and varanids, suggesting that raised MMRs either evolved in synapsids shortly after the Synapsida-Sauropsida split in the Mississippian or that the low MMR of lepidosaurs and turtles is apomorphic, as has been postulated for crocodiles.


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izumi Yuzawa ◽  
Sava Sakadžić ◽  
Vivek J Srinivasan ◽  
Hwa Kyoung Shin ◽  
Katharina Eikermann-Haerter ◽  
...  

Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is associated with severe hypoperfusion in mice. Using minimally invasive multimodal optical imaging, we show that severe flow reductions during and after spreading depression are associated with a steep decline in cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen. Concurrent severe hemoglobin desaturation suggests that the oxygen metabolism becomes at least in part supply limited, and the decrease in cortical blood volume implicates vasoconstriction as the mechanism. In support of oxygen supply-demand mismatch, cortical nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence increases during spreading depression for at least 5 minutes, particularly away from parenchymal arterioles. However, modeling of tissue oxygen delivery shows that cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen drops more than predicted by a purely supply-limited model, raising the possibility of a concurrent reduction in oxygen demand during spreading depression. Importantly, a subsequent spreading depression triggered within 15 minutes evokes a monophasic flow increase superimposed on the oligemic baseline, which markedly differs from the response to the preceding spreading depression triggered in naive cortex. Altogether, these data suggest that CSD is associated with long-lasting oxygen supply-demand mismatch linked to severe vasoconstriction in mice.


1977 ◽  
Vol 233 (1) ◽  
pp. F61-F66 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Johannesen ◽  
M. Lie ◽  
F. Kiil

A rise in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) during saline infusion increases outer medullary more than cortical metabolic rate. To determine whether other GFR-increasing agents have a similar effect, renal metabolic rates were estimated by the heat-production technique during infusion of glycine or glucagon. Glycine and glucagon increased GFR by 17 +/- 2 and 32 +/- 2%, renal blood flow (RBF) by 34 and 21%, and outer medullary metabolic rate by 42 +/- 3 and 59 +/- 4%, respectively. Cortical metabolic rate rose by 7 +/- 1% during glucagon, and it increased by 29 +/- 2% during glycine infusion, suggesting a stimulation unrelated to sodium reabsorption. To determine whether glucagon influenced renal metabolism independent of its GFR-increasing effects, vasodilation was achieved by ureteral or suprarenal aortic constriction. Glucagon was without effect on RBF, GFR, and metabolic rate, but infusion of acetylcholine still raised RBF. We conclude that glucagon increases GFR by dilating vascular segments participating in autoregulation, and that energy-requiring NaCl reabsorption in the outer medulla is increased secondary to increased delivery of NaCl.


1962 ◽  
Vol 202 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendell N. Stainsby

The effect of increased metabolic rate on autoregulation of blood flow in skeletal muscle was investigated by stimulating muscle to contract. At elevated metabolic rates good autoregulation of blood flow was observed but at higher blood flow levels than those observed in resting muscle. The degree of autoregulation in the contracting muscle was at least as great as in resting muscle. It would appear that a close link with metabolism is involved in the mechanisms associated with autoregulation of blood flow.


Paleobiology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. O'Connor ◽  
Peter Dodson

A physical, model-based approach to body temperatures in dinosaurs allows us to predict what ranges of body temperatures and what thermoregulatory strategies were available to those dinosaurs. We argue that 1.The huge range of body sizes in the dinosaurs likely resulted in very different thermal problems and strategies for animals at either end of this size continuum.2.Body temperatures of the smallest adult dinosaurs and of hatchlings and small juveniles would have been largely insensitive to metabolic rates in the absence of insulation. The smallest animals in which metabolic heating resulted in predicted body temperatures ≥ 2°C above operative temperatures (Te) weigh 10 kg. Body temperature would respond rapidly enough to changes in Te to make behavioral thermoregulation possible.3.Body temperatures of large dinosaurs (>1000 kg) likely were sensitive to both metabolic rate and the delivery of heat to the body surface by blood flow. Our model suggests that they could adjust body temperature by adjusting metabolic rate and blood flow. Behavioral thermoregulation by changing microhabitat selection would likely have been of limited utility because body temperatures would have responded only slowly to changes in Te.4.Endothermic metabolic rates may have put large dinosaurs at risk for overheating unless they had adaptations to shed the heat as necessary. This would have been particularly true for dinosaurs with masses > 10,000 kg, but simulations suggest that for animals as small as 1000 kg in the Tropics and in temperate latitudes during the summer, steady-state body temperatures would have exceeded 40°C. Slow response of body temperatures to changes in Te suggests that use of day-night thermal differences would have buffered dinosaurs from diel warming but would not have lowered body temperatures sufficiently for animals experiencing high mean daily Te.5.Endothermic metabolism and metabolic heating might have been useful for intermediate and large-sized (100–3000 kg) dinosaurs but often in situations that demanded marked seasonal adjustment of metabolic rates and/or precise control of metabolism (and heat-loss mechanisms) as typically seen in endotherms.


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