Do vertebrate cells dictate basal metabolic rate or does the organism
have some influence over this decision? In this paper we advance the i
dea that the rate of delivery of essential nutrients to cells could be
a key regulatory mechanism, a concept which originates from Coulson (
Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 84A, 1986, 217-229) that we have extended to
the delivery of substrates to enzymes at the intracellular level.