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Blood adaptations for maternal-fetal oxygen transfer in the viviparous teleost, Zoarces viviparus L.

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Respiration and metabolism of embryonic vertebrates

Part of the book series: Perspectives in vertebrate science ((PIVS,volume 3))

Abstract

Oxygen affinities of the whole blood are considerably higher in late gestational fetuses than in the maternal specimens of the viviparous, ovary-breeding teleost, Zoarces viviparus (half-saturation O2 tensions, P50, approximate 9 and 23.5 torr, respectively, at pH 7.5 and 10°C). The maternal blood P50 values moreover show a greater sensitivity to pH and a lower sensitivity to temperature than the fetal blood. We also report on the \({P_{C{O_2}}}\) /pH/bicarbonate relationships in the fetal and adult blood in vitro and the \(P_{{O_2}}^{}\) and pH values in the ovarian fluids.

The higher O2 affinity of the fetal blood is mainly due to higher intrinsic O2 affinities of the cofactor-free fetal hemoglobin compared to the adult hemoglobin, and is not attributable to significantly lower concentrations of the nucleoside triphosphates, ATP and GTP, in the fetal erythrocytes, or to lower sensitivities of the fetal hemoglobin to these allosteric modulators of O2 affinity. The large fetal-maternal shift in blood O2 affinity appears to compensate for a low ‘structural capacity’ for maternal-fetal O2 transfer in the blood system of zoarcid teleost fish.

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Hartvig, M., Weber, R.E. (1984). Blood adaptations for maternal-fetal oxygen transfer in the viviparous teleost, Zoarces viviparus L.. In: Seymour, R.S. (eds) Respiration and metabolism of embryonic vertebrates. Perspectives in vertebrate science, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6536-2_2

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