... Calcium Sodium Seabass Amino acids Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia UIDB/04326/2020 EXPL/BIA-ECO/1161/2021 LA/P/0101/2020 UIDP/04326/2020 Living organisms use chemosensory systems (e.g. olfaction and taste) for many vital processes. For aquatic animals, the olfactory...

..., the ureters and the lower Malpighian tubule. insect gut salt stress sodium potassium haemolymph ionoregulation phenotypic plasticity In many insects, the gut and/or the Malpighian (renal) tubules play important homeostatic roles in response to salt stress associated with dehydration...

... ( [email protected] ) 25 7 2011 © 2011. 2011 Malpighian tubule salt stress sodium potassium haemolymph ionoregulation Insects are known to survive a wide variety of desiccating or hypersaline environments that pose challenges to the maintenance of homeostasis. For example...

... sensitivity to amino acids is maintained by decreasing reliance on external Na + . * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 20 5 2009 2009 olfaction calcium sodium salinity amino acid flatfish Maintenance of constant plasma [Ca 2+ ] and [Na + ] is crucial...

... of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada 20 8 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 sodium potassium exchanger alkalinization AgNHA NHA AgNHE NHE CHA CHE CPA2 African malaria mosquito All organisms regulate their cellular pH, volume...

..., of sodium and potassium currents of somatic muscle of larval Danio rerio to investigate their possible contribution to once-only firing. Our computer model incorporated simulated sodium and potassium ion channels based on steady-state and kinetic parameters derived from a recent electrophysiological study...

... (100 μmol l –1 phenamil), 21-fold (10 μmol l –1 CDPC) or 12-fold (2 mmol l –1 amiloride) when Cu o was 800 μmol l –1 compared to those in drug-free controls. Lowering the external chloride concentration [Cl – ] o from 131.6 to 6.6 mmol l –1 (replaced by sodium gluconate) caused the rate of Cu...

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..., B. I. ( 1994 ). Sodium-coupled neurotransmitter transport: structure, function and regulation. J. Exp. Biol. 96 , 237 -249. Kleinberger-Doron, N. and Kanner, B. I. ( 1994 ). Identification of tryptophan residues critical for the function and targeting of the gammaaminobutyric acid...

... shares some properties in common with ligand inhibition of DAT, SERT, NET and the γ-aminobutyric acid transporter (GAT1). † e-mail: [email protected] 21 5 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 ion channel potassium sodium amino acid transporter ionic...

.... Hudson, D. M. and Lutz, P. L. ( 1986 ). Salt gland function in the leatherback sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea. Copeia 1986 , 247 -249. Kooistra, T. A. and Evans, D. H. ( 1976 ). Sodium balance in the green turtle, Chelonia mydas , in seawater and freshwater. J. Comp. Physiol. 107 , 229...

... © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 Culex tarsalis Culex quinquefasciatus sodium chloride ion regulation uptake efflux mosquito larva osmoconformer. Over the past 70 years, an enormous body of work has been dedicated to describing ion regulation in freshwater...

...±0.2 mg) compared to fresh eggs (2.1±0.3 mg) was not significant, even though there was an approximately threefold increase in the amount of sodium (0.11±0.01 mg in neonates, 0.34±0.01 mg in eggs) and potassium (0.12±0.017 in neonates, 0.40±0.01 mg in eggs) in neonates compared to eggs...

... haemolymph sodium beetle Rhytinota praelonga . The ability of the tenebrionids to survive the dry season as adults is based on a number of behavioural and physiological adaptations. The adults spend the hot days hidden under stones and logs, where they avoid the high temperatures and low air...

... 1993 intracellular pH ion-transport mechanisms SITS amiloride EIPA sodium chloride bicarbonate ion-selective microelectrode moult sensory neurone Astacus astacus crayfish stretch receptor Several preparations from various crayfish species have been investigated to find...

...-selective electrodes pH sodium potassium calcium ammonium Although the latter type of electrode is suitable for intramyocardial and intravascular recording from animals the size of dogs and pigs ( Hill et al . 1978 ), flexible electrodes with smaller diameters and longer shanks are required...

... and its possible mechanisms. 04 06 1990 © 1990 by Company of Biologists 1990 magnesium freshwater teleost Oreochromis mossambicus 28 Mg stripped epithelium sodium dependency Male tilapia {Oreochromis mossambicus Peters), weighing around 150g, were obtained from...

...John P. Eylers; Alan R. Greenberg ABSTRACT Swelling tests in a series of isotonic and isoionic solutions of varying calcium-to-sodium ratios were conducted on isolated dermal connective tissue of the holothurian Thyonella gemmata Verrill. The tissue swelled rapidly and attained a maximum volume...

...Martine Avella; Michel Bornancin ABSTRACT The mechanism of ammonia excretion and sodium absorption was re-examined in trout using the isolated-perfused head preparation. Preliminary experiments in which ammonia concentration was increased on the blood side (internal) showed that ammonia and sodium...

.... 07 04 1987 © 1987 by Company of Biologists 1987 sodium ionic permeabilities gill cuticle crab Osmoregulation and ionoregulation in decapod crustaceans have been related to water and salt exchanges across the surface of the gut, the antennal gland and the gills. The latter...