... Summary: Cardiac taurine deficiency impairs heart function in brook char and alters whole-animal sensitivity to thermal, hypoxic and exercise stress. β-Alanine Heart rate Critical thermal maximum Hypoxic bradycardia Isolated perfused heart Regulatory volume decrease Osmorespiratory compromise...

..., protein tyrosine phosphorylation and MAP kinase in regulatory volume decrease. J. Physiol. 537 , 347 -362. Singer, T. D., Tucker, S. J., Marshall, W. S. and Higgins, C. F. ( 1998 ). A divergent CFTR homologue: Highly regulated salt transport in the euryhaline teleost Fundulus heteroclitus . Am...

... tension. Values are means ± S.E.M., N =7. The intracellular pH was higher in erythrocytes incubated in hypoxic than in normoxic conditions throughout the regulatory volume decrease experiments, whereas the extracellular pH was only slightly affected ( Fig. 11A,B ). There was an immediate decrease...