Rapid regulation of Na+ fluxes and ammonia excretion in response to acute environmental hypoxia in the Amazonian oscar, Astronotus ocellatus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Wood, Chris M ^a,b   Kajimura, Makiko ^a   Sloman, Katherine A ^c   Scott, Graham R ^d   Walsh, Patrick J ^b,e   Almeida Val, Vera M F ^f   Val, Adalberto L ^f  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ion channels; Ionoregulation; Nitrogen metabolism; Sodium potassium ATPase; Teleost fish

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM);

AMMONIA FORMATION; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPOXIA; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; NITROGEN BALANCE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROGEN URINE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM TRANSPORT; TELEOST;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CICHLIDS; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN; SODIUM; UREA; WATER; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 34248149352     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00640.2006     Document Type: Article

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