Affiliation:
1. the Institut für Zoologie und Limnologie (B.P.), Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria, and the Department of Biological Sciences (W.W.B.), University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Abstract
Embryonic hemoglobin circulated by the developing heart in the early vertebrate embryo is widely assumed (without substantiation) to perform the same vital role of O
2
carriage that it does in fetuses and adults. In order to challenge this assumption, we measured highly O
2
-dependent physiological variables like O
2
consumption, cardiac performance, and initial swim bladder filling in the presence and absence of functional hemoglobin in the embryos and early larvae of the zebra fish,
Danio
(=
Brachydanio
)
rerio
. Functional ablation of hemoglobin by carbon monoxide or phenylhydrazine did not reduce whole-animal O
2
consumption, which was ≈85 to 90 μmol·g
−1
·h
−1
. Similarly, no differences in heart variables like ventricular pressure development or heart rate, which increased from 135 to 175 bpm between stages 36h and 96h (indicating developmental stages 36 and 96 hours after fertilization, respectively), were observed in these experiments. Initial opening of the swim bladder was not influenced in the presence of CO-occupied hemoglobin but was significantly impaired when the embryonic hemoglobin was chemically modified by incubation with phenylhydrazine. That aerobic processes continue without hemoglobin O
2
transport indicates the adequacy in the embryo of simple O
2
diffusion alone even in developmental stages with extensive convective blood circulation generated by the heart.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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