Expression of ornithine-urea cycle enzymes in early life stages of air-breathing walking catfish Clarias batrachus and induction of ureogenesis under hyper-ammonia stress

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-53

  Kharbuli, Zaiba Y ^a   Datta, Shritapa ^a   Biswas, Kuheli ^a   Sarma, Debajit ^b   Saha, Nirmalendu ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b St Anthony's College   (India)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Ammoniotelic; Ammonium chloride; Carbamyl phosphate synthetase III; Glutamine synthetase; Urea; Ureogenic

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; CARBAMATE KINASE; ENZYME; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; NITROGEN; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE UREA CYCLE ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXCRETION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TELEOST; UREA CYCLE;

ANIMALIA; CLARIAS BATRACHUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 29344438856     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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