The African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus can tolerate high levels of ammonia in its tissues and organs during four days of aerial exposure

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 630-640

  Ip, Y K ^a   Lau, I Y ^a   Wong, W P ^a   Lee, S L M ^a   Chew, S F ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMMONIA; GLUTAMINE; UREA;

AMMONIA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AIR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CATFISH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LIVER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AIR; ALANINE; AMMONIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATFISHES; GLUTAMINE; LIVER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS; UREA;

CLARIAS BATRACHUS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; HETEROPNEUSTES FOSSILIS; SILURIFORMES;

EID: 21044459555     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430691     Document Type: Article

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