Efficient fish not faint-hearted

Elizabeth Brainerd ()
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Elizabeth Brainerd: University of Massachusetts

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6648, 229-230

Abstract: When compared with the blood circulation systems of birds and mammals, those of certain air-breathing fishes and most reptiles appear to be primitive and inefficient. There may, however, be a good physiological reason — delivery of oxygenated blood direct to the heart muscle — why they are designed the way they are. The principles concerned could inform clinicians who treat heart disease.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/38381

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