Urea based osmoregulation and endocrine control in elasmobranch fish with special reference to euryhalinity

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 685-700

  Hazon, Neil ^a   Wells, Alan ^a   Pillans, Richard D ^b   Good, Jonathan P ^a   Anderson, W Gary ^a   Franklin, Craig E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b Estuary and Waterway Management ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cl ; Drinking; Elasmobranch; Euryhaline; Gill; Kidney; Na+; Osmoregulation; Rectal gland; Urea

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; SODIUM ION; UREA;

ADAPTATION; BODY FLUID; CARCHARHINUS LEUCAS; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DASYATIS SABINA; DRINKING; ELASMOBRANCHII; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EURYHALINITY; FISH; GILL; HYPEROSMOLALITY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM GLAND; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

CARCHARHINUS; CARCHARHINUS LEUCAS; CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIS; DASYATIS SABINA; ELASMOBRANCHII; LEUCAS;

EID: 0344234443     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(03)00280-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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