Search Results - "P W Bicudo, José Eduardo"
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AbeTx1 Is a Novel Sea Anemone Toxin with a Dual Mechanism of Action on Shaker-Type K⁺ Channels Activation
Published in Marine drugs (01-10-2018)“…Voltage-gated potassium (K ) channels regulate diverse physiological processes and are an important target for developing novel therapeutic approaches. Sea…”
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Seasonal metabolic depression, substrate utilisation and changes in scaling patterns during the first year cycle of tegu lizards (Tupinambis merianae)
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-01-2004)“…The tegus increase in body mass after hatching until early autumn, when the energy intake becomes gradually reduced. Resting rates of oxygen consumption in…”
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Adaptive thermogenesis in hummingbirds
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-08-2002)“…The occurrence of non-shivering thermogenesis in birds has long been a controversial issue. Although birds are endothermic vertebrates, sharing with mammals…”
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Cloning and functional characterization of an uncoupling protein homolog in hummingbirds
Published in Physiological genomics (02-04-2001)“…1 Department of Physiology, Biosciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo 05508 2 Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel…”
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Intraspecific Relationships between Resting and Activity Metabolism in Anuran Amphibians: Influence of Ecology and Behavior
Published in Physiological and biochemical zoology (01-03-2004)“…The aerobic capacity model, as well as other models for the evolution of aerobic metabolism and the origin of endothermy, requires a mechanistic link between…”
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Temperature effects on energy metabolism: a dynamic system analysis
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-01-2002)“…values can be used to derive conclusions about energy metabolism regulatory control. The main point of this disagreement is whether or not it is fair to use…”
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Control and regulatory mechanisms associated with thermogenesis in flying insects and birds
Published in Bioscience reports (01-06-2005)“…Most insects and birds are able to fly. The chitin made exoskeleton of insects poses them several constraints, and this is one the reasons they are in general…”
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Comparative biochemistry and physiology in Brazil: A critical appraisal
Published in Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology (01-07-2007)“…Brazil stood out as the country with the highest number of submissions to the editorial project dedicated to Latin America by the journal Comparative…”
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Thermogenesis in birds
Published in Bioscience reports (01-04-2001)“…The article discusses the importance of avian skeletal muscle as a source for heat generation by means of both shivering and non-shivering. Non-shivering…”
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Unusual Metabolic Shifts in Fasting Hummingbirds
Published in The Auk (01-07-1995)“…Chaui-Berlinck and Bicudo measured the oxygen consumption and carbon-dioxide production of a Brazilian hummingbird species using an open-flow respirometry…”
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Torpor in Three Species of Brazilian Hummingbirds under Semi-Natural Conditions
Published in The Condor (Los Angeles, Calif.) (01-08-1997)“…We measured body temperatures in three species of Brazilian hummingbirds, the Versicolored Emerald (Amazilia versicolor; body mass 4.1 g), the Black Jacobin…”
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The oxygen gain of diving insects
Published in Respiration physiology (01-11-2001)“…The gas gill of diving insects allows gas exchange with the surrounding water, thus extending diving time. Incompressible gas gills can potentially last…”
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