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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 210, Issue 11, Pages 1935-1943Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.005371
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hypoxia; recovery; routine metabolic rate; protein synthesis; lactate production; Astronotus ocellatus
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Oxygen consumption, as an indicator of routine metabolic rate (RoMR), and tissue-specific changes in protein synthesis, as measured by H-3-labelled phenylalanine incorporation rates, were determined in Astronotus ocellatus to investigate the cellular mechanisms behind hypoxia-induced metabolic depression and recovery. RoMR was significantly depressed, by approximately 50%, when dissolved oxygen levels reached 10% saturation (0.67 +/- 0.01 mg l(-1) at 28 +/- 1 degrees C). This depression in RoMR was accompanied by a 50-60% decrease in liver, heart and gill protein synthesis, but only a 30% decrease in brain protein synthesis. During recovery from hypoxia, an overshoot in RoMR to 270% of the normoxic rate was observed, indicating the accumulation of an oxygen debt during hypoxia. This conclusion was consistent with significant increase in plasma lactate levels during the hypoxic exposure, and the fact that lactate levels rapidly returned to pre-hypoxic levels. In contrast, a hyperactivation of protein synthesis did not occur, suggesting the overshoot in oxygen consumption during recovery is attributed to an increase in cellular processes other than protein synthesis.
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