Strategies for surviving high concentrations of environmental ammonia in the swamp eel Monopterus albus

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 390-405

  Ip, Yuen K ^a   Tay, Angeline S L ^a   Lee, Kong H ^a   Chew, Shit F ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; EEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY BURDEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; LD 50; LIVER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGAPORE; SMEGMAMORPHA; TIME; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; ENVIRONMENT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIVER; NITROGEN; SINGAPORE; SMEGMAMORPHA; TIME FACTORS;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; MONOPTERUS ALBUS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 4143056947     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383510     Document Type: Article

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