Ammonia secretion from fish gill depends on a set of Rh glycoproteins

FASEB Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1067-1074

  Nakada, Tsutomu ^a   Westhoff, Connie M ^b,c   Kato, Akira ^a   Hirose, Shigehisa ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonium transporter; Mitochondria rich cell; RhAG; Rhesus glycoprotein; Teleost

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; METHYLAMMONIUM; RHESUS ANTIGEN; RHESUS ANTIGEN B; RHESUS ANTIGEN C; RHESUS ANTIGEN C2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXCRETION; GILL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OSMOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ERYTHROCYTES; FISHES; GILLS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OOCYTES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TAKIFUGU; XENOPUS;

MAMMALIA; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 33947672870     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.06-6834com     Document Type: Article

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