Energy production per circulatory cycle: a constant in resting land vertebrates?
Correcting for differences in blood flow, resting alligators, caimans, lizards, turtles, rats and dogs deaminated amino acids at the same rate. Each produced about 21 calories/kg during one complete circulatory revolution, irrespective of body temperature, size or species. Uniform O2 and substrate A-V differences are responsible for the phenomenon.
D000489:Alligators and Crocodiles; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001831:Body Temperature; D004285:Dogs; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006207:Half-Life; D006439:Hemodynamics; D008116:Lizards; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D051381:Rats; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D013045:Species Specificity; D014426:Turtles
D000596:Amino Acids