Metabolic biochemistry

Content: 
Preface
Page v

Contributors
Pages vii-ix

Abbreviations
Page xiii

Chapter 1 Design for a high speed path for oxygen: tuna red muscle ultrastructure and vascularization Original Research Article
Pages 1-13
Odile Mathieu-Costello, Richard W. Brill(xa*), Peter W. Hochachka(xa**)

Chapter 2 Circulatory substrate fluxes and their regulation Original Research Article
Pages 15-32
Jean-Michel Weber, Georges Zwingelstein

Chapter 3 Endogenous fuels; non-invasive versus invasive approaches Original Research Article
Pages 33-63
Guido Vanden hillart, Marcel Van Raaij

Chapter 4 Tissue carbohydrate metabolism, gluconeogenesis and hormonal and environmental influences Original Research Article
Pages 65-100
Thomas W. Moon, Glen D. Foster

Chapter 5 Metabolism of the swimbladder tissue Original Research Article
Pages 101-118
Bernd Pelster

Chapter 6 Glycerophospholipid metabolism Original Research Article
Pages 119-157
Douglas R. Tocher

Chapter 7 Amino acid metabolism in fish Original Research Article
Pages 159-189
Karl Jürss, Ralf Bastrop

Chapter 8 Protein synthesis in fish Original Research Article
Pages 191-220
D.F. Houlihan, C.G. Carter, I.D. McCarthy

Chapter 9 Nutrient fluxes and regulation in fish intestine Original Research Article
Pages 221-239
Nathan L. Collie, Ronaldo P. Ferraris

Chapter 10 Metabolic organization of thermogenic tissues of fishes Original Research Article
Pages 241-258
James S. Ballantyne

Chapter 11 Electric organs: structure, physiology, hormone-sensitivity, and biochemistry Original Research Article
Pages 259-277
Harold H. Zakon

Chapter 12 Biochemical and molecular aspects of singing in batrachoidid fishes Original Research Article
Pages 279-289
Patrick J. Walsh, Thomas P. Mommsen, Andrew H. Bass

Chapter 13 Is glycolytic rate controlled by the reversible binding of enzymes to subcellular structures? Original Research Article
Pages 291-307
Stephen P.J. Brooks, Kenneth B. Storey

Chapter 14 Histidine-related dipeptides: distribution, metabolism, and physiological function Original Research Article
Pages 309-333
Hiroki Abe

Chapter 15 The metabolic consequences of body size Original Research Article
Pages 335-366
Edward M. Goolish

Chapter 16 Exercise metabolism of fish Original Research Article
Pages 367-392
Christopher D. Moves, Timothy G. West

Chapter 17 Fasting and starvation Original Research Article
Pages 393-434
Isabel Navarro, Joaquim Gutiérrez

Chapter 18 Origins of luciferins: ecology of bioluminescence in marine fishes Original Research Article
Pages 435-466
Eric M. Thompson, Jean-François Rees

Species index
Pages 467-469

Subject index
Pages 471-515