Kristine Hovkjær Østergaard

Jugular venous pooling during lowering of the head affects blood pressure of the anesthetized giraffe

Emil Brøndum, J. Michael Hasenkam, Niels H. Secher et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology · 2009 · 62 citations

Protection against high intravascular pressure in giraffe legs

Karin Kastberg Petersen, Arne Hørlyck, Kristine Hovkjær Østergaard et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology · 2013 · 27 citations

Hypertension, Anatomy, Orthopaedic Surgery +18

The giraffe kidney tolerates high arterial blood pressure by high renal interstitial pressure and low glomerular filtration rate

T Wang, Emil Brøndum, Kristine Hovkjær Østergaard et al. · Acta Physiologica · 2015 · 27 citations

The thick left ventricular wall of the giraffe heart normalises wall tension, but limits stroke volume and cardiac output

Morten Smerup, Mads Damkjær, Emil Brøndum et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2015 · 27 citations · Full text

Left Ventricular Morphology of the Giraffe Heart Examined by Stereological Methods

Kristine Hovkjær Østergaard, Ulrik Baandrup, Tobias Wang et al. · The Anatomical Record · 2013 · 26 citations