OXYGEN-TRANSPORT DURING PROGRESSIVE HYPOXIA IN HIGH-ALTITUDE AND SEA-LEVEL WATERFOWL
OXYGEN-TRANSPORT DURING PROGRESSIVE HYPOXIA IN HIGH-ALTITUDE AND SEA-LEVEL WATERFOWL
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DOI:
10.1016/0034-5687(80)90046-8
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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TENNEY, SM
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作者:
BLACK, CP;TENNEY, SM
Under conditions of progressive hypoxia, O2 transport was compared in bar-headed geese (Anser indicus), a species which breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and migrates at altitudes up to 9200 m, and Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos, f. domestica), a similarly sized, sea-level waterfowl that does not fly. Pekin ducks showed no altitude-induced behavioral effects (e.g., restlessness) up to 7620 m. Bar-headed geese tolerated 10,668 m with no observable behavioral changes. Ventilatory and cardiac responses to hypoxia as functions of Pa[arterial O2 partial pressure]O2 followed a typical hyperbolic contour, but the response began at almost 20 torr lower in the bar-headed goose. Ventilation and cardiac output appeared to follow a common response curve for the 2 spp., when the independent variable was expressed as arterial O2 content. The goose had a high O2 affinity Hb, compared with the duck; the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curves of both shifted slightly to the right as a result of acclimation to 5640 m; but only the duck developed erythrocytosis as a consequence of acclimation. Under sea level conditions the duck maintained a higher mixed venous PO2 [partial pressure O2], but with acute hypoxic exposures P.hivin.vO2 was higher in the goose. Following acclimation, cardiac output in the duck was lower than in the pre-acclimatized state, but in the goose it was higher up to the altitude at which it migrates. The selective pressures leading to the evolution of favorable O2 transport in the bar-headed goose are discussed.