Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs

Hematological parameters of birds and mammals seem to respond to environmental requirements, such as hypoxia at high altitude and the energetic demands of locomotion and flight. In this work we hypothesize that lung capillary hematocrit and red blood size may be influenced by the energetic requireme...

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Autores principales:	CANALS,M, DONOSO,C, FIGUEROA,D, SABAT,P
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2007
Materias:	cost of flight capillary hematocrit red blood cell size oxygen diffusion capacity
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-078X20070003000022008-04-01Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungsCANALS,MDONOSO,CFIGUEROA,DSABAT,P cost of flight capillary hematocrit red blood cell size oxygen diffusion capacity Hematological parameters of birds and mammals seem to respond to environmental requirements, such as hypoxia at high altitude and the energetic demands of locomotion and flight. In this work we hypothesize that lung capillary hematocrit and red blood size may be influenced by the energetic requirements of flight. Also, we propose that hematological parameters should vary together with the morphological parameters that determine oxygen diffusion capacity. We analyzed the red blood cell size and the local characteristics of the pulmonary capillary hematocrit correlating these with the pulmonary factors that determines the oxygen diffusion capacity. We deal with seven species, non-flying and flying birds and mammals, with different energetic requirements. The capillary hematocrit was not different in each taxon, but the red blood cell size was smaller in flying mammals and birds than non-flying ones. Correlation of erythrocyte size with the diffusing characteristics of the lungs produced a non-phylogenetic clustering with a group constituting by the bats Tadarida brasiliensis y Myotis chiloensis, and the bird Z. auriculata; revealing similar functional response in unrelated species. Finally, in mammals, a negative correlation between the red blood cell size and the mass-specific oxygen diffusion capacity was obtained. These results suggest that the direction of the hematological and pulmonary adjustments is governed mainly by the requirements of flight independent of phylogenetic origin of the species studiedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileRevista chilena de historia natural v.80 n.3 20072007-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2007000300002en10.4067/S0716-078X2007000300002
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spellingShingle	cost of flight capillary hematocrit red blood cell size oxygen diffusion capacity CANALS,M DONOSO,C FIGUEROA,D SABAT,P Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs
description	Hematological parameters of birds and mammals seem to respond to environmental requirements, such as hypoxia at high altitude and the energetic demands of locomotion and flight. In this work we hypothesize that lung capillary hematocrit and red blood size may be influenced by the energetic requirements of flight. Also, we propose that hematological parameters should vary together with the morphological parameters that determine oxygen diffusion capacity. We analyzed the red blood cell size and the local characteristics of the pulmonary capillary hematocrit correlating these with the pulmonary factors that determines the oxygen diffusion capacity. We deal with seven species, non-flying and flying birds and mammals, with different energetic requirements. The capillary hematocrit was not different in each taxon, but the red blood cell size was smaller in flying mammals and birds than non-flying ones. Correlation of erythrocyte size with the diffusing characteristics of the lungs produced a non-phylogenetic clustering with a group constituting by the bats Tadarida brasiliensis y Myotis chiloensis, and the bird Z. auriculata; revealing similar functional response in unrelated species. Finally, in mammals, a negative correlation between the red blood cell size and the mass-specific oxygen diffusion capacity was obtained. These results suggest that the direction of the hematological and pulmonary adjustments is governed mainly by the requirements of flight independent of phylogenetic origin of the species studied
author	CANALS,M DONOSO,C FIGUEROA,D SABAT,P
author_facet	CANALS,M DONOSO,C FIGUEROA,D SABAT,P
author_sort	CANALS,M
title	Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs
title_short	Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs
title_full	Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs
title_fullStr	Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs
title_full_unstemmed	Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs
title_sort	pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2007
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2007000300002
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Pulmonary hematological parameters, energetic flight demands and their correlation with oxygen diffusion capacity in the lungs

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