G Protein Subunit G a 13 Binds to Integrin a IIb b 3 and Mediates Integrin “ Outside-In ” Signaling
G Protein Subunit G a 13 Binds to Integrin a IIb b 3 and Mediates Integrin “ Outside-In ” Signaling
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Haixia Gong;Bo Shen;P. Flevaris;Christina R. Chow;S. Lam;T. Voyno-Yasenetskaya;T. Kozasa;Xiaoping Du
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Haixia Gong;Bo Shen;P. Flevaris;Christina R. Chow;S. Lam;T. Voyno-Yasenetskaya;T. Kozasa;Xiaoping Du
the ventrobronchi into the mesobronchus (1). A glass model demonstrated how this geometry gives rise to unidirectional airflow (1). The mechanism of unidirectional flow in alligator lungs is yet to be determined, but our data support Hazelhoff 's model (1), in which key features of the bronchial tree give rise to unidirectional flow. During inspiration, air may jet past the obliquely oriented vestibule of the CVB to enter the larger dorsal bronchial openings and reduce lateral pressure at the CVB orifice to draw air from the CVB into the intrapulmonary bronchus. During exhalation, air in the caudoventral bronchi may jet dorsally (blue arrows in Fig. 1C) to enter the ostia of the dorsobronchi. In this way, a simple arrangement of the bronchi by themselves might give rise to unidirectional airflow. Also, the mechanismof gas exchange in crocodilians is not known; a crosscurrent mechanism has been hypothesized (11), but a countercurrent mechanism cannot be ruled out. Furthermore, the importance of unidirectional airflow for gas exchange efficiency in the alligator lung is not known and cannot be determined from our data, which consist of measurements of airflow. Previous scenarios for the evolution of unidirectional airflow are that it arose in dinosaurs of coelurosaurian grade (12), convergently in theropods and pterosaurs (13, 15), or not at all in dinosaurs because of a hepatic piston mechanism of breathing (14). Our findings contrast with these previous views in several ways. They demonstrate that the hepatic piston mechanism of breathing, which crocodilians have but birds lack, does not preclude the evolution of unidirectional flow and that pneumaticity, which crocodilians lack, cannot be used to diagnose unidirectional airflow in fossil taxa, as previously suggested (13, 15). Crocodilians and birds are crown-group Archosauria. Therefore, in contrast to previous views, we suggest that unidirectional flow evolved before the divergence of crurotarsan and dinosaurian archosaurs and was present in the basal archosaurs and their descendants, including phytosaurs, aetosaurs, “rauisuchians,” and crocodylomorphs. The crurotarsans and, somewhat later, the dinosaurs supplanted the synapsids as the dominant members of the Triassic terrestrial vertebrate assemblage, with Triassic mammals existing as diminutive mouselike forms (16, 17). The roles of contingency and competition in the faunal turnover that occurred in the aftermath of the End Permian mass extinction are controversial. The basal archosaurs and archosauromorphs, animals such as Euparkaria, appear to have expanded their capacity for vigorous exercise (18) during a period of relative environmental hypoxia (19). In bird lungs, unidirectional airflow coupled with a crosscurrent mechanism of gas exchange facilitates the extraction of oxygen under conditions of hypoxia (20). If such a lung was present at the base of the archosaur radiation, this clade may have been better able than the synapsids to compete for niches that required a capacity for vigorous exercise.