Branchial and renal handling of urea in the gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta: The effect of exogenous urea loading

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 763-776

  McDonald, M Danielle ^a   Grosell, Martin ^b   Wood, Chris M ^a,b   Walsh, Patrick J ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Gills; Gulf toadfish; Kidney, Opsanus beta; Transport kinetics; Urea; Urea infusion; Urea transport protein (tUT)

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; EXCRETION; FISH; GILL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; INFUSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE EXCRETION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; SECRETION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URINE;

BATRACHOIDIDAE GEN. SP.; OPSANUS; OPSANUS BETA;

EID: 0037603386     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00010-2     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Beyenbach K.W., Kirschner L.B. The unreliability of mammalian glomerular markers in teleostean renal studies. J. Exp. Biol. 64:1976;369-378.
2. Chou C.L., Sands J.M., Nonoguchi H., Knepper M.A. Concentration dependence of urea and thiourea transport in rat inner medullary collecting duct. Am. J. Physiol. 258:1990;F486-F494.
3. Curtis J.B., Wood C.M. The function of the urinary bladder in vivo in the freshwater rainbow trout. J. Exp. Biol. 155:1991;567-583.
4. Dytko G., Smith P., Kinter L.B. Urea transport in toad skin (Bufo marinus). J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 267:1993;364-367.
5. Erickson D.A., Gingerich W.H. Effect of injected rotenone on the production and composition of urine from the rainbow trout. Aquat. Toxicol. 9:1986;263-274.
6. Fines G.A., Ballantyne J.S., Wright P.A. Active urea transport and an unusual basolateral membrane composition in the gills of a marine elasmobranch. Am. J. Physiol. 280:2001;R16-R24.
7. Howe D., Gutknecht J. Role of the urinary bladder in osmoregulation in the marine teleost, Opsanus tau. Am. J. Physiol. 235:1978;R48-R54.
8. Hughes G.M., Grey I.E. Dimensions and ultrastructure of toadfish gills. Biol. Bull. 143:1972;150-161.
9. Isozaki T., Gillin A.G., Swanson C.E., Sands J.M. Protein restriction sequentially induces new urea transport processes in rat initial IMCD. Am. J. Physiol. 266:1994;F756-F761.
10. Isozaki T., Lea J.P., Tumlin J.A., Sands J.M. Sodium-dependent net urea transport in rat initial inner medullary collecting ducts. J. Clin. Invest. 94:1994;1513-1517.
11. Isozaki T., Verlander J.W., Sands J.M. Low protein diet alters urea transport and cell structure in rat initial inner medullary collecting duct. J. Clin. Invest. 92:1993;2448-2457.
12. Ivancic I., Degobbis D. An optimal manual procedure for ammonia analysis in natural waters by the indophenol blue method. Water Res. 1B:1984;1143-1147.
13. Kato A., Sands J.M. Active sodium-urea counter-transport is inducible in the basolateral membrane of rat renal initial inner medullary collecting ducts. J. Clin. Invest. 102:1998;1008-1015.
14. Kato A., Sands J.M. Evidence for sodium-dependent active urea secretion in the deepest subsegment of the rat inner medullary collecting duct. J. Clin. Invest. 101:1998;423-428.
15. Kato A., Sands J.M. Urea transport processes are induced in rat IMCD subsegments when urine concentrating ability is reduced. Am. J. Physiol. 276:1999;F62-F71.
16. Katz U., Garcia-Romeu F., Masoni A., Isaia J. Active transport of urea across the skin of the euryhaline toad Bufo viridis. Pflugers Arch. 390:1981;299-300.
17. Kishore B.K., Terris J., Fernandez-Llama P., Knepper M.A. Ultramicrodetermination of vasopressin-regulated urea transporter protein in microdissected renal tubules. Am. J. Physiol. 272:1997;F531-F537.
18. + transport in frog skin epithelium. Am. J. Physiol. 261:1991;R898-R906.
19. Lahlou B., Henderson I.W., Sawyer W.H. Renal adaptations by Opsanus tau, a euryhaline aglomerular teleost, to dilute media. Am. J. Physiol. 216:1969;1266-1272.
20. Levine S., Franki N., Hays R.M. A saturable vasopressin-sensitive carrier for urea and acetamide in the toad urinary bladder epithelial cells. J. Clin. Invest. 52:1973;2083-2086.
21. McDonald M.D., Walsh P.J., Wood C.M. Branchial and renal excretion of urea and urea analogues in the plainfin midshipman, Porichthys notatus. J. Comp. Physiol. 172B:2002;699-712.
22. McDonald M.D., Wood C.M. Reabsorption of urea by the kidney of the freshwater rainbow trout. Fish Physiol. Biochem. 18:1998;375-386.
23. McDonald M.D., Wood C.M., Wang Y., Walsh P.J. Differential branchial and renal handling of urea, acetamide and thiourea in the gulf toadfish Opsanus beta: evidence for two transporters. J. Exp. Biol. 203:2000;1027-1037.
24. Mommsen T.P., Walsh P.J. Evolution of urea synthesis in vertebrates: the piscine connection. Science. 243:1989;72-75.
25. Nemenyi P., Dixon S.K., White N.B., Hedstrom M.L. Statistics from Scratch. 1977;Holden-Day, San Francisco.
26. Part P., Wood C.M., Gilmour K.M., et al. Urea and water permeability in the ureotelic gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta). J. Exp. Zool. 283:1999;1-12.
27. Pilley C.M., Wright P.A. The mechanisms of urea transport by early life stages of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). J. Exp. Biol. 203:2000;3199-3207.
28. Rahmatullah M., Boyde T.R. Improvements in the determination of urea using diacetyl monoxime; methods with and without deproteination. Clin. Chim. Acta. 107:1980;3-9.
29. Randall D.J., Wood C.M., Perry S.F., et al. Urea excretion as a strategy for survival in a fish living in a very alkaline environment. Nature. 337:1989;165-166.
30. Rapoport J., Abuful A., Chaimovitz C., Noeh Z., Hays R.M. Active urea transport by the skin of Bufo viridis: amiloride and phloretin-sensitive transport sites. Am. J. Physiol. 255:1988;F429-F433.
31. + gradients. Am. J. Physiol. 256:1989;F830-F835.
32. Sands J.M. Regulation of renal urea transporters. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 10:1999;635-646.
33. Sands J.M., Timmer R.T., Gunn R.B. Urea transporters in kidney and erythrocytes. Am. J. Physiol. 273:1997;F321-F339.
34. Schmidt-Nielsen B., Truniger B., Rabinowitz L. Sodium-linked urea transport by the renal tubule of the spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A. 42:1972;13-25.
35. Shpun S., Katz U. Saturable urea transport pathway across the urinary bladder of Bufo viridis and salt acclimation. Biol. Cell. 66:1989;179-181.
36. Shpun S., Katz U. Urea transport across urinary bladder and salt acclimation in toad (Bufo viridis). Am. J. Physiol. 258:1990;R883-R888.
37. Smith C.P., Heitz M.J., Wood C.M., Walsh P.J. Molecular identification of a gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta) urea transporter. J. Physiol. Lond. 511:1998;33P.
38. Smith C.P., Rousselet G. Facilitative urea transporters. J. Membrane Biol. 183:2001;1-14.
39. Stoskopf M.K. Fish Medicine. 1993;W.B. Saunders Co, Phlidelphia.
40. Walsh P., Milligan C. Effects of feeding and confinement on nitrogen metabolism and excretion in the gulf toadfish Opsanus beta. J. Exp. Biol. 198:1995;1559-1566.
41. Walsh P., Tucker B., Hopkins T. Effects of confinement/crowding on ureogenesis in the gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta. J. Exp. Biol. 191:1994;195-206.
42. Walsh P.J. Lactate uptake by toadfish hepatocytes: passive diffusion is sufficient. J. Exp. Biol. 130:1987;295-304.
43. Walsh P.J., Danulat E.M., Mommsen T.P. Variation in urea excretion in the gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta. Med. Biol. 106:1990;323-328.
44. Walsh P.J., Heitz M.J., Campbell C.E., et al. Molecular characterization of a urea transporter in the gill of the gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta). J. Exp. Biol. 203:2000;2357-2364.
45. Wolff N.A., Kinne R., Elger B., Goldstein L. Renal handling of taurine, L-alanine, L-glutamate and D-glucose in Opsanus tau: studies on isolated brush border membrane vesicles. J. Comp. Physiol. 157B:1987;573-581.
46. Wood C.M., Perry S.F., Wright P.A., Bergman H.L., Randall D.J. Ammonia and urea dynamics in the Lake Magadi tilapia, a ureotelic teleost fish adapted to an extremely alkaline environment. Respir. Physiol. 77:1989;1-20.
47. Wood C., Hopkins T., Hogstrand C., Walsh P. Pulsatile urea excretion in the ureagenic toadfish Opsanus beta: an analysis of rates and routes. J. Exp. Biol. 198:1995;1729-1741.
48. Wood C.M., Hopkins T.E., Walsh P.J. Pulsatile urea excretion in the toadfish (Opsanus beta) is due to a pulsatile excretion mechanism, not a pulsatile production mechanism. J. Exp. Biol. 200:1997;1039-1046.
49. Wood C.M., Gilmour K.M., Perry S.F., Part P., Walsh P.J. Pulsatile urea excretion in gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta): evidence for activation of a specific facilitated diffusion transport system. J. Exp. Biol. 201:1998;805-817.
50. Wood C.M., Warne J.M., Wang Y., et al. Do circulating plasma AVT and/or cortisol levels control pulsatile urea excretion in the gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta)? Comp Biochem. Physiol. Part A. 129:2001;859-872.