Grudnitskii V A, Dontsova G V
Biol Bull Acad Sci USSR. 1979 Jul-Aug;6(4):501-4.
To discover the possible mechanisms determining the level of energy metabolism during changes in the body size of animals, the content of mitochondrial protein was studied in planarians during starvation and feeding. In the course of starvation, the relative content of mitochondrial protein decreases, whereas during feeding it increases. Comparison of the experimental results with previous observations on respiration of planarians under similar conditions shows that changes in the level of respiration during starvation and feeding correlate with the content of mitochondrial protein. However, the degree of the functional load on the mitochondria must be taken into account under these circumstances.
为了发现决定动物体型变化过程中能量代谢水平的可能机制，研究了饥饿和进食期间涡虫线粒体蛋白的含量。在饥饿过程中，线粒体蛋白的相对含量降低，而在进食期间则增加。将实验结果与之前在类似条件下对涡虫呼吸作用的观察结果进行比较，发现在饥饿和进食期间呼吸水平的变化与线粒体蛋白的含量相关。然而，在这些情况下必须考虑线粒体的功能负荷程度。
