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  • Title: New insights into survival strategies to oxygen deprivation in anoxia-tolerant vertebrates.
    Author: Fago A.
    Journal: Acta Physiol (Oxf); 2022 Jul; 235(3):e13841. PubMed ID: 35548887.
    Abstract:
    Hypoxic environments pose a severe challenge to vertebrates and even short periods of oxygen deprivation are often lethal as they constrain aerobic ATP production. However, a few ectotherm vertebrates are capable of surviving long-term hypoxia or even anoxia with little or no damage. Among these, freshwater turtles and crucian carp are the recognized champions of anoxia tolerance, capable of overwintering in complete oxygen deprivation for months at freezing temperatures by entering a stable hypometabolic state. While all steps of the oxygen cascade are adjusted in response to oxygen deprivation, this review draws from knowledge of freshwater turtles and crucian carp to highlight mechanisms regulating two of these steps, namely oxygen transport in the blood and oxygen utilization in mitochondria during three sequential phases: before anoxia, when hypoxia develops, during anoxia, and after anoxia at reoxygenation. In cold hypoxia, reduced red blood cell concentration of ATP plays a crucial role in increasing blood oxygen affinity and/or reducing oxygen unloading to tissues, to adjust aerobic metabolism to decrease ambient oxygen. In anoxia, metabolic rewiring of oxygen utilization keeps largely unaltered NADH/NAD+ ratios and limits ADP degradation and succinate buildup. These critical adjustments make it possible to restart mitochondrial respiration and energy production with little generation of reactive oxygen species at reoxygenation when oxygen is again available. Inhibition of key metabolic enzymes seems to play crucial roles in these responses, in particular mitochondrial complex V, although identifying the nature of such inhibition(s) in vivo remains a challenge for future studies.
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