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Bradycardia in armadillos experimentally covered with soil
E B Casanave1, L García Samartino, J M Affanni
1Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional del Sur, San Juan, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
Chaetophractus villosus is able to maintain efficient respiratory movements when its nostrils are experimentally covered with soil. Under these conditions, a progressive bradycardia develops. It would depend on hypothermia and asphyxia.