Effects of high environmental ammonia on branchial ammonia excretion rates and tissue Rh-protein mRNA expression levels in seawater acclimated Dungeness crab Metacarcinus magister

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-277

  Martin, Michael ^a   Fehsenfeld, Sandra ^a   Sourial, Mary M ^a   Weihrauch, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonia transport; HEA; Metacarcinus magister; NHE; Rh like protein

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); AMMONIA; CASEIN KINASE II; HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL AMMONIA; HYDROGEN POTASSIUM ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RH LIKE AMMONIA TRANSPORTER; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; EXCRETION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HEMOLYMPH; MALE; METACARCINUS MAGISTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; CANCER MAGISTER; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 79960697868     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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