WHAT DETERMINES THE BASAL METABOLIC-RATE OF VERTEBRATE CELLS IN-VIVO

Authors
WHEATLEY DN CLEGG JS
Citation
Dn. Wheatley et Js. Clegg, WHAT DETERMINES THE BASAL METABOLIC-RATE OF VERTEBRATE CELLS IN-VIVO, Biosystems, 32(2), 1994, pp. 83-92
Citations number
48
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
Biosystems → ACNP
ISSN journal
03032647
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
83 - 92
Database
ISI
SICI code
0303-2647(1994)32:2<83:WDTBMO>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
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.