Right-to-left shunt has modest effects on CO2 delivery to the gut during digestion, but compromises oxygen delivery

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2017-02-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1242/jeb.149625PMID 27980124
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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