... with concentrations in ambient seawater, and has been shown to excrete urine voluntarily. Nephridia Heavy metal T 1 relaxation time Magnetic resonance imaging The excretion system of mussels consists of kidneys and the pericardium ( Martin and Harrison, 1966 ; Bayne, 1976 ). Hemolymph is filtered...

... and Eide, 2001a , b ; Cragg et al., 2002 ) of zinc uptake proteins, the ZnT transport group for zinc efflux from cells( McMahon and Cousins, 1998 ),and the more generic DMT-1 heavy metal transporter that accepts a wide variety of metal ions ( Gunshin et al.,1997 ). It therefore appears that metals...

...I. M. Sokolova; S. Evans; F. M. Hughes SUMMARY Exposure to environmentally prevalent heavy metals such as cadmium can have detrimental effects on a variety of commercially and ecologically important species such as oysters. Since Cd 2+ is known to induce apoptosis in immune cells of vertebrates, we...

... American lobster Homarus americanus copper transport Phen Green hepatopancreas epithelial cell ion uptake heavy metal Large-bodied members of the phyla Arthropoda, Mollusca and Echinodermata possess gastrointestinal diverticula (digestive glands, hepatopancreas, pyloric ceca, etc...

... polychaete worm Nereis succinea Annelida transport regulation calcium cadmium heavy metal Over the course of the last century, researchers found that soft-bodied marine invertebrates displayed the capacity to absorb low molecular weight organic compounds from their surroundings by transport...

... to demonstrate the effects of external and internal divalent cationic heavy metals on the uptake of L-[ 3 H]proline. When BBMVs were exposed to a high external concentration (2.5 mmol l −1 ) of Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Fe 2+ , Mn 2+ or Zn 2+ , L-[ 3 H]proline (0.5 mmol l −1 ) uptake was significantly (P<0.05...