... Immune function Osmotic stress Immunocompetence Water limitations The vertebrate immune system is a host defense that consists of numerous structural, biological and chemical components that are responsible for defending the host against a wide array of invasive pathogens. It can be roughly...

... water content after salinity pre-treatment WLR water loss rate (mean, maximum, final) Both salinity and desiccation lead to dehydration and osmotic stress, which is a critical problem at the cellular level ( Bradley, 2009 ; Cohen, 2012 ; Evans, 2008 ). Therefore, salinity and desiccation...

... ). Physiological responses of horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) embryos to osmotic stress and a possible role for stress proteins (HSPs) . Mar. Biol.   158 , 1691 - 1698 . 10.1007/s00227-011-1682-y Guppy , M. and Withers , P. ( 1999 ). Metabolic depression in animals: physiological...

... carbon sources, such as lactate or oleic acid, affects stress adaptation in C. albicans ( Ene et al., 2012a ). Lactate-grown cells are more resistant to osmotic stress, cell wall stresses and some antifungal drugs. This increased stress resistance is not dependent on Hog1 or Mkc1 signalling. Instead...

... galloprovincialis Mytilus trossulus osmotic stress proteomics salinity stress systems biology Biogeographic distribution ranges of marine organisms are shifting due to climate change, specifically rising atmospheric and oceanic temperatures, increasing acidity of the ocean and more frequent...

...-probed F-actin. Upon hypo-osmotic stress claudin 28b fluorescence and epithelial tightness remained stable. Under hyperosmotic stress, the presence of claudin 28b at the junction significantly decreased, and epithelial tightness was severely reduced. Cortical F-actin fluorescence increased upon hypo...

... for correspondence ( bphilip@rivier.edu ) 8 11 2010 © 2011. 2011 EsAQP1 cold tolerance acclimation osmotic stress water balance Xenopus swelling assay Organisms that experience excessive shifts in solute concentration and water distribution during osmotic challenge risk sustaining...

..., metabolic and counteracting cytoprotectants in high osmolarity and other stresses. J. Exp. Biol. 208 , 2819 -2830. * Author for correspondence( melnitsky@mercyhurst.edu ) 8 6 2009 2009 osmotic stress dehydration cold-hardiness Antarctica Chironomidae Insects...

... that tilapia has two PRLR genes whose protein products respond uniquely to PRL and activate different downstream pathways. Expression of a short PRLR2 variant may serve to inhibit PRL binding during osmotic stress and in male tissues. † Author for correspondence (e-mail: dkueltz@ucdavis.edu...

... ). References Barrieu, F., Marty-Mazars, D., Thomas, D., Chaumont, F.,Charbonnier, M. and Marty, F. ( 1999 ). Desiccation and osmotic stress increase the abundance of mRNA of the tonoplast aquaporin BobTIP26-1 in cauliflower cells. Planta 209 , 77 -86. Beuron, F., Le Caherec, F., Guillam, M...

...L. López-Bojórquez; P. Villalobos; C. García-G.; A. Orozco; C. Valverde-R. SUMMARY The physiological role played by thyroid hormones (TH) in hydro-osmotic homeostasis in fish remains a controversial issue. Previous studies have shown that in Fundulus heteroclitus (killifish) hypo-osmotic stress...

... The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 salinity adaptation osmotic stress systems biology euryhaline fish proteomics Major advances in high-throughput technologies for the detection and quantification of nucleic acids, proteins and metabolites have led to a paradigm shift in biological...

... available for the study of C. elegans and discuss how we have used them to gain new insights into osmotic stress signaling in animal cells. The nervous system of adult hermaphrodites contains 302 neurons and 56 glial and support cells. Males have 381 neurons and 92 glial and support cells. White et al...

... and chicken aquaporin 1 and aquaporin 5 cDNAs by sequencing. Using digoxigenin-labelled probes derived from these PCR products in northern blot analyses of mRNA isolated from nasal glands of untreated(naïve) or osmotically stressed ducklings (replacement of drinking water with a 1% NaCl solution), we...

... enhanced atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) immunoreactivity in osmotically stressed hearts. Interestingly, SB 203580 (1 μmol l –1 ) not only completely blocked the activation of p38-MAPK by all these interventions, but also abolished the enhanced ANP immunoreactivity induced by 0.5 mol l –1 sorbitol...

...Dietmar Kültz; Maurice Burg ABSTRACT Cells respond to changes in osmotic pressure with compensatory molecular adaptations that allow them to re-establish homeostasis of osmotically disturbed aspects of cell structure and function. In addition, some cell types respond to osmotic stress by changing...

... and organic ion homeostasis function independently. 30 05 1989 © 1989 by Company of Biologists 1989 organic acids organic anions ion regulation osmotic stress blood constituents leech Hirudo medicinalis Hirudinea In the blood of the leech, Hirudo medicinalis , Cl...