Role of free D- and L-alanine in the Japanese mitten crab Eriocheir japonicus to intracellular osmoregulation during downstream spawning migration

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-59

  Abe, Hiroki ^a   Okuma, Emiko ^b   Amano, Hideomi ^c   Noda, Hiroyuki ^c   Watanabe, Katsuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Crustacean; D Alanine; Eriocheir japonicus; Hemolymph; L Alanine; Muscle; Osmoregulation; Spawning migration

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; DEXTRO ALANINE; FRESH WATER; GLYCINE; ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ESTUARY; HEMOLYMPH; MATURATION; MIGRATION; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; SALINITY; SEA;

ERIOCHEIR JAPONICUS;

EID: 0033026025     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00037-9     Document Type: Article

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