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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 218, 期 8, 页码 1198-1211出版社
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DOI: 10.1242/jeb.114579
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Hypoxia tolerance; Respiration; Energy metabolism; Gill morphology; Haematology; Muscle histology
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- McMaster University
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Many fish encounter hypoxia on a daily cycle, but the physiological effects of intermittent hypoxia are poorly understood. We investigated whether acclimation to constant (sustained) hypoxia or to intermittent diel cycles of nocturnal hypoxia (12 h normoxia: 12 h hypoxia) had distinct effects on hypoxia tolerance or on several determinants of O-2 transport and O-2 utilization in estuarine killifish. Adult killifish were acclimated to normoxia, constant hypoxia, or intermittent hypoxia for 7 or 28 days in brackish water (4 ppt). Acclimation to both hypoxia patterns led to comparable reductions in critical O-2 tension and resting O-2 consumption rate, but only constant hypoxia reduced the O-2 tension at loss of equilibrium. Constant (but not intermittent) hypoxia decreased filament length and the proportion of seawater-type mitochondrion-rich cells in the gills (which may reduce ion loss and the associated costs of active ion uptake), increased blood haemoglobin content, and reduced the abundance of oxidative fibres in the swimming muscle. In contrast, only intermittent hypoxia augmented the oxidative and gluconeogenic enzyme activities in the liver and increased the capillarity of glycolytic muscle, each of which should facilitate recovery between hypoxia bouts. Neither exposure pattern affected muscle myoglobin content or the activities of metabolic enzymes in the brain or heart, but intermittent hypoxia increased brain mass. We conclude that the pattern of hypoxia exposure has an important influence on the mechanisms of acclimation, and that the optimal strategies used to cope with intermittent hypoxia may be distinct from those for coping with constant hypoxia.
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