Ammonia sensitivity of the glass eel (Anguilla anguilla L.): Salinity dependence and the role of branchial sodium/potassium adenosine triphosphatase

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-147

  Da Silva, Joana Moreira ^a,b   Coimbra, João ^a,b   Wilson, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Freshwater; Glass eel; Seawater; Sodium potassium adenosine triphosphatase

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION PROFILES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; ATP-ASE ACTIVITY; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; FRESHWATER; HIGH DENSITY; LETHAL CONCENTRATION; LOWER BODY; NET AMMONIA FLUX; TEST ORGANISMS; TOTAL AMMONIA NITROGENS; TOXIC LEVELS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; FISHERIES; GLASS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SODIUM; TANNING;

AMMONIA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); AMMONIA; NITROGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCLIMATION; AMMONIA; BIOACCUMULATION; EEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH CULTURE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORTALITY; PHOSPHATE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SODIUM; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TEST;

AMMONIA FORMATION; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTUARY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANIMALIA;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; EELS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 65449141422     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-104.1     Document Type: Article

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