Plasticity of osmoregulatory function in the killifish intestine: Drinking rates, salt and water transport, and gene expression after freshwater transfer

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4040-4050

  Scott, Graham R ^a   Schulte, Patricia M ^a   Wood, Chris M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbonic anhydrase; CFTR; Cortisol; Drinking rate; Fish; Fundulus heteroclitus; Intestine; Ion flux; Na K ATPase; NKCC; Water absorption

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); FRESH WATER; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DRINKING; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; INTESTINE; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DRINKING; FRESH WATER; FUNDULIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTESTINES; ION TRANSPORT; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS;

EID: 33751082447     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02462     Document Type: Article

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