... . 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.12.021 Bucking , C. , Lemoine , C. M. R. , Craig , P. M. and Walsh , P. J. ( 2013 ). Nitrogen metabolism of the intestine during digestion in a teleost fish, the plainfin midshipman ( Porichthys notatus ) . J. Exp. Biol. 216 , 2821 - 2832 . 10.1242/jeb...

... transporters Ionocyte Nitrogen metabolism The climbing perch, Anabas testudineus (Bloch 1792), is a freshwater teleost belonging to Order Perciformes and Family Anabantidae. It can be found in canals, lakes, ponds, swamps and estuaries in tropical Asia, and can tolerate extremely unfavorable water...

...Yuen K. Ip; Serene M. L. Lee; Wai P. Wong; Shit F. Chew SUMMARY The objective of this study was to examine the effects of 6 days of emersion on nitrogen metabolism and excretion in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis . Despite having a soft shell with a cutaneous surface...

... processes nitrogen metabolism urea excretion urea transporter UT-A The Chinese soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis Wiegmann 1835, previously known as Trionyx sinensis , belongs to the family Trionychidae. It is well adapted to an aquatic environment and inhabits standing or slow-flowing...

... area, acclimation of goldfish to differing temperatures is expected to influence a myriad of other factors that could potentially influence the rates of branchial ammonia excretion. Such temperature-dependent processes include metabolic rate, food consumption, nitrogen metabolism, ventilation...

... Fishes (ed. Val A. L. , de Almedia-Val V. F. , Randall D. J. ), pp. 307 - 396 . San Diego : Academic Press . Chew S. F. , Gan J. , Ip Y. K. ( 2005 ). Nitrogen metabolism and excretion in the swamp eel, Monopterus albus, during 6 or 40 days of aestivation in mud...

... normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes. Genome Biol. 3 , RESEARCH0034 . Walsh, P. J. and Milligan, C. L. ( 1995 ). Effects of feeding and confinement on nitrogen metabolism and excretion in the gulf toadfish Opsanus beta . J. Exp...

.... and Ip, Y. K. ( 2001 ). The loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus reduces amino acid catabolism and accumulates alanine and glutamine during aerial exposure. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 74 , 226 -237. Chew, S. F., Gan, J. and Ip, Y. K. ( 2005 ). Nitrogen metabolism and excretion in the swamp eel...

... Limited 2007 2007 ammonia toxicity liver enzyme activity gene expression mRNA nitrogen metabolism glutamine sublethal ammonia exposure The vertebrate brain is the most vulnerable organ to the highly mobile and toxic ammonia ( Felipo and Butterworth,2002 ). The major end product...

.... L., Wright, P. A. and Ballantyne, J. S. ( 2003b ). Urea transport in kidney brush-border membrane vesicles from an elasmobranch, Raja erinacea . J. Exp. Biol. 206 , 3293 -3302. Perlman, D. F. and Goldstein, L. ( 1998 ). Nitrogen metabolism. In Physiology of Elasmobranch Fishes (ed. T. J...

... The Company of Biologists Limited 2004 2004 amino acids ammonia ammonia excretion feeding glutamine mudskipper nitrogen metabolism ornithine-urea cycle Periophthalmodon schlosseri urea When confronted with aerial exposure, tropical air-breathing fishes would be expected to have...

...( Danio rerio ) expressed sequence tag (EST) and pufferfish( Takifugu rubripes ) genome sequences should facilitate the search for answers. ornithine–urea cycle arginine urea nitrogen metabolism mitochondrial targeting Oncorhynchus mykiss © The Company of Biologists Limited 2004 2004...

... 11 2003 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2004 2004 aestivation Protopterus dolloi lungfish nitrogen metabolism ammonia excretion urea excretion mucus cocoon Lungfishes (or dipnoans, as they are `dual breathers') are an archaic group of fishes, characterized...

... Limited 2003 2003 ammonia ammonia detoxification ammonia excretion amino acid carbamoyl phosphate synthetase elasmobranch Himantura signifer nitrogen metabolism ornithine-urea cycle osmoregulation stingray urea urea excretion The synthesis of excretory urea in certain land...

...Marie-Cécile De Cian; Michèle Regnault; François H. Lallier ABSTRACT The distribution of nitrogen metabolism end-products and the associated enzyme activities, free amino acids and purine base catabolites were investigated in all the body compartments (circulating fluids and tissues...

... 20 05 1999 19 07 1999 © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 air-exposure nitrogen metabolism amino acid urate protein haemolymph muscle hepatopancreas crab Carcinus maenas Necora puber In aquatic crustaceans, the main end-product of nitrogen catabolism...

.... ( 1995 ). Nitrogen metabolism and fractionation of nitrogen in plants . In Stable Isotopes in the Biosphere (ed. E. Wada , T. Yoneyama , M. Minagawa , T. Ando and B. D. Fry ), pp. 92 – 102 . Kyoto, Japan : Kyoto University Press . Zanotto , F. P. , Simpson...

... and control crabs indicated that specific processes were used to manage the nitrogen overload induced by air exposure. Whereas N. puber shows little or no ability to limit ammonia accumulation in its body, C. maenas exhibits strong regulation of its nitrogen metabolism. The probability that amino acid...

... environmental hypercapnia extracellular pH free ADP Gibb’s free energy change of ATP hydrolysis H + transfer intracellular pH metabolic depression nitrogen metabolism phospho-L-arginine ventilation peanut worm Sipunculus nudus Intracellular acid–base parameters were determined in animals...

... clam symbiosis Solemya reidi nitrogen metabolism Solemya reidi is a gutless protobranch clam that inhabits burrows in sulfidic sediments on the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada ( Bernard, 1980 ). Reduction or absence of structures associated with particulate feeding...