...‰; however, salinities around 21‰ are expected to act as a threshold, limiting its survival and distribution in the context of climate change-induced coastal freshening. Osmotic stress Echinoderm Acclimation Coastal freshening Climate change Phenotypic plasticity Natural Environment...

... 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...

... negative effects on water and ionic balance, decreasing performance. Inland waters Beetles Drought Osmotic stress Homeostasis Water balance The persistence of animal populations in dynamic and multivariate environments greatly depends on their ability to deal with the interactive effects...

... Summary: Multiple abiotic stressors can interact to affect the development rate of horseshoe crab embryos in ways that cannot be predicted from the effects of the stressors in isolation. Multiple abiotic stressors Compound stressors Osmotic stress Hypoxia Heat stress Niche space model...

... biosynthetic enzymes rather than the osmolyte glycerol ( You et al., 2012 ), because glycerol is rapidly extruded from yeast cells when the osmotic stress is removed ( Klipp et al., 2005 ). By analogy, acquired tolerance to oxidative stress is probably mediated by the accumulation of antioxidant enzymes rather...

[email protected] ) 19 6 2012 7 8 2012 © 2012. 2012 biogeography climate change Mytilus galloprovincialis Mytilus trossulus osmotic stress proteomics salinity stress systems biology Biogeographic distribution ranges of marine organisms are shifting due to climate change...

...-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 ( [email protected] ) 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...

... stress and add to the suite of physiological responses used by larvae to enhance survival in the harsh and unpredictable Antarctic environment. osmotic stress dehydration cold-hardiness Antarctica Chironomidae References Baust, J. G. and Edwards, J. S. ( 1979 ). Mechanisms of freezing...

... 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. Interestingly, expression of the 35 kDa truncated variant of Om PRLR2...

[email protected] ) 27 1 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 aquaporins osmotic stress water balance freeze-tolerant insects Aquaporins are membrane proteins that function in the movement of water and small solutes across the cell membrane. Initially characterized...

...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...

... 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. My own research interests are focused broadly on the integrative physiology of ion and water homeostasis, particularly osmosensitive ion channels,epithelial transport...

... 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...

... 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...