Basal surface

I have read in biology text book that Rat body surface area is greater than an Elephant,So that Rat has higher Basal Metabolic Rate than an Elephant. How to understand this?

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... 4! I'm afraid I don't really know for 2. Contractions in the atria at a basal level are caused by the SA node (which is part of neither system), ... the peripheral blood vessels all dilate to let blood closer to the surface to cool us off (hence we go red in the face when we're overheating). ...

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... similar to adenosine, and binds to adenosine receptors on the surface of cells without activating them (an "antagonist" mechanism ... inhibit calcium uptake. A2A receptors are heavily concentrated in the basal ganglia, an area that plays a critical role in behavior control, but ...

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The epithelial cells is the outer most surface basal lamina also known as the basement membrane (extracellular matrix) layer Support tissue is the next ...

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... permeases: GLUT1, GLUT2, GLUT3 and GLUT4. GLUT1 accounts for the basal tranport of glucose in all human cells. So no your cell will not starv. ... cell is an intestinal cell it might have a glucose/Na symporter on its surface. Thus its ability to take up glucose obove the rate of GLUT1 depends ...

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