... previously on anaesthetized alligators and extend previous work by showing two potential types of shunt. Finally, we suggest that right-to-left blood shunting in crocodilians may be related to the ‘alkaline tide’ that occurs after feeding, so the unique design of the central cardiovascular system...

... be no doubt that the cardiovascular systems in living reptiles are evidence that a lot of evolutionary experiment has gone on in the group. alligator heart cardiac cycle left aorta active valve blood shunt blood pressures blood flows Alligator mississipiensis © 1991 by Company...