Water content, body weight and acid mucopolysaccharides, hyaluronidase and β-glucuronidase in response to aestivation in Australian desert frogs

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 881-892

  Bayomy, M F F ^a   Shalan, A G ^b   Bradshaw, S D ^b   Withers, P C ^b   Stewart, T ^b   Thompson, G ^c  

^a Menoufia University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aestivation; Amphibians; Cocoon; Conservation; Frog; Hyaluronidase; Kidney; Liver; Mucopolysaccharide; Skin; Water content; Glucuronidase

Indexed keywords

ACID GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; ALCIAN BLUE; GLUCOSAMINIDASE; HYALURONIDASE; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FROG; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; LIVER; MUCUS GLAND; NONHUMAN; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAINING; TISSUE; TISSUE LEVEL; WAKEFULNESS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER CONTENT; WATER LOSS; WATER RETENTION; WATER TRANSPORT;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CYCLORANA; NEOBATRACHUS; NEOBATRACHUS SUTOR;

EID: 0036130030     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00004-1     Document Type: Article

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