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Su H, Fan J, Ma D, Zhu H. Identification and Characterization of Osmoregulation Related MicroRNAs in Gills of Hybrid Tilapia Under Three Types of Osmotic Stress. Front Genet 2021; 12:526277. [PMID: 33889171 PMCID: PMC8056028 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.526277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Researchers have increasingly suggested that microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression and protein translation in organs and respond to abiotic and biotic stressors. To understand the function of miRNAs in osmotic stress regulation of the gills of hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus ♀ × Oreochromis urolepis hornorum ♂), high-throughput Illumina deep sequencing technology was used to investigate the expression profiles of miRNAs under salinity stress (S, 25‰), alkalinity stress (A, 4‰) and salinity-alkalinity stress (SA, S: 15‰, A: 4‰) challenges. The results showed that 31, 41, and 27 upregulated and 33, 42, and 40 downregulated miRNAs (P < 0.05) were identified in the salt stress, alkali stress, and saline-alkali stress group, respectively, which were compared with those in the control group (C). Fourteen significantly differently expressed miRNAs were selected randomly and then validated by a quantitative polymerase chain reaction. On the basis of Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway analysis, genes related to osmoregulation and biosynthesis were enriched in the three types of osmotic stress. In addition, three miRNAs and three predicted target genes were chosen to conduct a quantitative polymerase chain reaction in the hybrid tilapia and its parents during 96-h osmotic stress. Differential expression patterns of miRNAs provided the basis for research data to further investigate the miRNA-modulating networks in osmoregulation of teleost.
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- Huanhuan Su
- Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Allen GJP, Weihrauch D. Exploring the versatility of the perfused crustacean gill as a model for transbranchial transport processes. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2021; 254:110572. [PMID: 33556621 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2021.110572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The study of transbranchial ion and gas transport of water-breathing animals has long been a useful means of modeling transport processes of higher vertebrate organs through comparative physiology. The molecular era of biological research has brought forward valuable information detailing shifts in gene expression related to environmental stress and the sub-cellular localization of transporters; however, purely molecular studies can cause hypothetical transport mechanisms and hypotheses to be accepted without any direct physiological proof. Isolated perfused gill experiments are useful for testing most of these hypotheses and can sometimes be used outright to develop a well-supported working model for transport processes relating to an animal's osmoregulation, acid-base balance, nitrogen excretion, and respiratory gas exchange as well as their sensitivity to pollutants and environmental stress. The technique allows full control of internal hemolymph-like saline as well as the ambient environmental fluid compositions and can measure the electrophysiological properties of the gill as well as the transport rates of ions and gases as they traverse the gill epithelium. Additives such as pharmaceuticals or peptides as well as the exclusion of ions from the media are commonly used to identify the importance of specific transporters to transport mechanisms. The technique can also be used to identify the penetrance, retention, and localization of pollutants within the gill epithelium or to explore the uptake and metabolism of nutrients directly from the ambient environment. While this technique can be applied to virtually any isolatable organ, the anatomy and rigidity of the decapod crustacean gill make it an ideal candidate for most experimental designs.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada.
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Sun Z, Lou F, Zhang Y, Song N. Gill Transcriptome Sequencing and De Novo Annotation of Acanthogobius ommaturus in Response to Salinity Stress. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11060631. [PMID: 32521805 PMCID: PMC7349121 DOI: 10.3390/genes11060631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Revised: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Acanthogobius ommaturus is a euryhaline fish widely distributed in coastal, bay and estuarine areas, showing a strong tolerance to salinity. In order to understand the mechanism of adaptation to salinity stress, RNA-seq was used to compare the transcriptome responses of Acanthogobius ommaturus to the changes of salinity. Four salinity gradients, 0 psu, 15 psu (control), 30 psu and 45 psu were set to conduct the experiment. In total, 131,225 unigenes were obtained from the gill tissue of A. ommaturus using the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform (San Diego, USA). Compared with the gene expression profile of the control group, 572 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened, with 150 at 0 psu, 170 at 30 psu, and 252 at 45 psu. Additionally, among these DEGs, Gene Ontology (GO) analysis indicated that binding, metabolic processes and cellular processes were significantly enriched. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways analysis detected 3, 5 and 8 pathways related to signal transduction, metabolism, digestive and endocrine systems at 0 psu, 30 psu and 45 psu, respectively. Based on GO enrichment analysis and manual literature searches, the results of the present study indicated that A. ommaturus mainly responded to energy metabolism, ion transport and signal transduction to resist the damage caused by salinity stress. Eight DEGs were randomly selected for further validation by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and the results were consistent with the RNA-seq data.
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- Correspondence: or ; Tel.: +86-532-820-31658
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Transcriptomic response to low salinity stress in gills of the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. Mar Genomics 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2015.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Leone FA, Garçon DP, Lucena MN, Faleiros RO, Azevedo SV, Pinto MR, McNamara JC. Gill-specific (Na+, K+)-ATPase activity and α-subunit mRNA expression during low-salinity acclimation of the ornate blue crab Callinectes ornatus (Decapoda, Brachyura). Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2015; 186:59-67. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2015.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2015] [Revised: 04/16/2015] [Accepted: 04/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Christie AE, Fontanilla TM, Roncalli V, Cieslak MC, Lenz PH. Identification and developmental expression of the enzymes responsible for dopamine, histamine, octopamine and serotonin biosynthesis in the copepod crustacean Calanus finmarchicus. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2014; 195:28-39. [PMID: 24148657 PMCID: PMC3872210 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2013] [Revised: 10/01/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Neurochemicals are likely to play key roles in physiological/behavioral control in the copepod crustacean Calanus finmarchicus, the biomass dominant zooplankton for much of the North Atlantic Ocean. Previously, a de novo assembled transcriptome consisting of 206,041 unique sequences was used to characterize the peptidergic signaling systems of Calanus. Here, this assembly was mined for transcripts encoding enzymes involved in amine biosynthesis. Using known Drosophila melanogaster proteins as templates, transcripts encoding putative Calanus homologs of tryptophan-phenylalanine hydroxylase (dopamine, octopamine and serotonin biosynthesis), tyrosine hydroxylase (dopamine biosynthesis), DOPA decarboxylase (dopamine and serotonin biosynthesis), histidine decarboxylase (histamine biosynthesis), tyrosine decarboxylase (octopamine biosynthesis), tyramine β-hydroxylase (octopamine biosynthesis) and tryptophan hydroxylase (serotonin biosynthesis) were identified. Reverse BLAST and domain analyses show that the proteins deduced from these transcripts possess sequence homology to and the structural hallmarks of their respective enzyme families. Developmental profiling revealed a remarkably consistent pattern of expression for all transcripts, with the highest levels of expression typically seen in the early nauplius and early copepodite. These expression patterns suggest roles for amines during development, particularly in the metamorphic transitions from embryo to nauplius and from nauplius to copepodite. Taken collectively, the data presented here lay a strong foundation for future gene-based studies of aminergic signaling in this and other copepod species, in particular assessment of the roles they may play in developmental control.
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- Andrew E Christie
- Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1993 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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- Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1993 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1993 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1993 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1993 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Identification of a crab gill FXYD2 protein and regulation of crab microsomal Na,K-ATPase activity by mammalian FXYD2 peptide. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2012; 1818:2588-97. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2011] [Revised: 05/07/2012] [Accepted: 05/08/2012] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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McCoole MD, Atkinson NJ, Graham DI, Grasser EB, Joselow AL, McCall NM, Welker AM, Wilsterman EJ, Baer KN, Tilden AR, Christie AE. Genomic analyses of aminergic signaling systems (dopamine, octopamine and serotonin) in Daphnia pulex. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY D-GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS 2012; 7:35-58. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2011.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2011] [Revised: 10/26/2011] [Accepted: 10/29/2011] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Christie AE. Crustacean neuroendocrine systems and their signaling agents. Cell Tissue Res 2011; 345:41-67. [PMID: 21597913 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-011-1183-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2011] [Accepted: 04/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Decapod crustaceans have long served as important models for the study of neuroendocrine signaling. For example, the process of neurosecretion was first formally demonstrated by using a member of this order. In this review, the major decapod neuroendocrine organs are described, as are their phylogenetic conservation and neurochemistry. In addition, recent advances in crustacean neurohormone discovery and tissue mapping are discussed, as are several recent advances in our understanding of hormonal control in this group of animals.
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- Andrew E Christie
- Neuroscience Program, John W. and Jean C. Boylan Center for Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Old Bar Harbor Road, Salisbury Cove, ME 04672, USA.
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Faleiros RO, Goldman MHS, Furriel RPM, McNamara JC. Differential adjustment in gill Na+/K+- and V-ATPase activities and transporter mRNA expression during osmoregulatory acclimation in the cinnamon shrimp Macrobrachium amazonicum (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 213:3894-905. [PMID: 21037069 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.046870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We evaluate osmotic and chloride (Cl(-)) regulatory capability in the diadromous shrimp Macrobrachium amazonicum, and the accompanying alterations in hemolymph osmolality and [Cl(-)], gill Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase activity, and expression of gill Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase α-subunit and V-ATPase B subunit mRNA during salinity (S) acclimation. We also characterize V-ATPase kinetics and the organization of transport-related membrane systems in the gill epithelium. Macrobrachium amazonicum strongly hyper-regulates hemolymph osmolality and [Cl(-)] in freshwater and in salinities up to 25‰ S. During a 10-day acclimation period to 25‰ S, hemolymph became isosmotic and hypo-chloremic after 5 days, [Cl(-)] alone remaining hyporegulated thereafter. Gill Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase α-subunit mRNA expression increased 6.5 times initial values after 1 h, then decreased to 3 to 4 times initial values by 24 h and to 1.5 times initial values after 10 days at 25‰ S. This increased expression was accompanied by a sharp decrease at 5 h then recovery of initial Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase activity within 24 h, declining again after 5 days, which suggests transient Cl(-) secretion. V-ATPase B-subunit mRNA expression increased 1.5-fold within 1 h, then reduced sharply to 0.3 times initial values by 5 h, and remained unchanged for the remainder of the 10-day period. V-ATPase activity dropped sharply and was negligible after a 10-day acclimation period to 21‰ S, revealing a marked downregulation of ion uptake mechanisms. The gill epithelium consists of thick, apical pillar cell flanges, the perikarya of which are coupled to an intralamellar septum. These two cell types respectively exhibit extensive apical evaginations and deep membrane invaginations, both of which are associated with numerous mitochondria, characterizing an ion transporting epithelium. These changes in Na(+)/K(+)- and V-ATPase activities and in mRNA expression during salinity acclimation appear to underpin ion uptake and Cl(-) secretion by the palaemonid shrimp gill.
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- Rogério Oliveira Faleiros
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Liu HY, Pan LQ, Zheng DB. Effects of injection of biogenic amines on expression of gill related ion transporter mRNA and α-subunit protein in Litopenaeus vannamei. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2009; 154:29-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Revised: 12/28/2008] [Accepted: 01/04/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Injection of biogenic amines modulates osmoregulation of Litopenaeus vannamei: response of hemolymph osmotic pressure, ion concentration and osmolality effectors. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2008; 151:191-7. [PMID: 18634897 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2008] [Revised: 06/22/2008] [Accepted: 06/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In this paper, we compared systematically the temporal and dose response relationship and physiological significance among biogenic amines injection, changes of ion concentration, FAA concentrations and composition and protein in context of osmoregulatory ability in marine euryhaline shrimp: Litopenaeus vannamei. The dopamine (DA) and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) injection all had transient effects on hemolymph osmolality, ion concentrations but which occurred in different time and were dose-dependent. The highest concentrations of FAAs in hemolymph of L. vannamei were alanine, glycine, argnine, proline, lysine which were considered to be specific osmotic effectors. Contrary to the reduction of hemocyanin, injection of DA 10(-6) mol shrimp(-1) and 5-HT 10(-6) mol shrimp(-1) induced notable protein increase respectively, which led to the rapid reduction of hemocyanin/protein ratio in range of 63.2% to 78.3%. The increase of hemolymph FAAs might come from the new amino acid synthesis or degradation of muscle protein to FAAs or denovo synthesis of FAAs. Our study showed that dopamine plays an important role in neurotransmission and causes osmoregulation response modulation and 5-HT has different activation mechanism on osmoregulation.
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Genovese G, Senek M, Ortiz N, Regueira M, Towle DW, Tresguerres M, Luquet CM. Dopaminergic regulation of ion transport in gills of the euryhaline semiterrestrial crabChasmagnathus granulatus: interaction between D1- and D2-like receptors. J Exp Biol 2006; 209:2785-93. [PMID: 16809469 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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SUMMARYThe effects of dopamine (DA) and dopaminergic agonists and antagonists on ion transport were studied in isolated perfused gills of the crab Chasmagnathus granulatus. DA applied under steady state conditions(perfusion with hemolymph-like saline) produced a transient increase of the transepithelial potential difference (Vte) from 2.2±0.2 to 4.8±0.3 mV, describing an initial cAMP-dependent stimulating phase followed by an inhibitory phase. Spiperone and domperidone(antagonists of D2-like DA receptors in vertebrates) completely blocked the response to DA, while the D1-like antagonist SCH23390 blocked only the inhibitory phase. Theophylline (phosphodiesterase inhibitor) and okadaic acid(protein phosphatases PP1 and PP2A inhibitor) were also able to block the inhibitory phase, suggesting that it depends on adenylyl cyclase inhibition and on protein phosphatases. When the gills were perfused with hypo-osmotic solution, or with the adenylyl cyclase activator forskolin, Vte was increased several-fold. DA applied under these stimulated conditions partially reversed the Vte increase by 54% and 25%, respectively. Similarly, the D1-like agonist, fenoldopam,produced a 33% reduction in the stimulated Vte. We propose that, in C. granulatus gills, DA stimulates adenylyl cyclase and therefore ion transport through D1-like receptors linked to a Gs protein,although they respond to antagonists that interact with D2-like receptors in vertebrates. The inhibitory phase seems to be mediated by D2-like receptors linked to a Gi/o protein, which inhibits adenylyl cyclase, although these receptors can be activated or blocked by agonists or antagonists that interact with D1-like receptors in vertebrates and insects.
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- Griselda Genovese
- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria (C1428EHA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Halperin J, Genovese G, Tresguerres M, Luquet CM. Modulation of ion uptake across posterior gills of the crab Chasmagnathus granulatus by dopamine and cAMP. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2005; 139:103-9. [PMID: 15471687 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2003] [Revised: 05/27/2004] [Accepted: 07/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cyclic AMP (cAMP) and dopamine modulate ion uptake across isolated and perfused posterior gills of Chasmagnathus granulatus acclimated to 10 per thousand salinity. Addition of cAMP agonists, such as cp-cAMP, forskolin, and IBMX, produced a significant increase in the transepithelial potential difference (Vte), which reflects ion transport activity. Dopamine (DA) also had a stimulatory effect on ion uptake, increasing Vte and Na(+) influx, although this effect was transient, since both variables remained elevated for less than 30 min. In addition, the dose-response curve for DA concentration-Vte was biphasic, and the maximum stimulation was obtained with 10 micromol l(-1). When the effects of forskolin and DA on the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase activity were tested, they correlated well with the Vte and Na(+) influx experiments; the enzyme activity increased significantly after preincubation of gill fragments for 10 min with forskolin or DA (51 and 64%, respectively), but there was no effect after pre-incubation with DA for 20 min. Finally, KT5720, a specific inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), completely abolished the stimulatory effect of DA on Vte, suggesting the involvement of PKA in this mechanism.
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- J Halperin
- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria (C1428EHA) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Morris S, Ahern MD. Regulation of urine reprocessing in the maintenance of sodium and water balance in the terrestrial Christmas Island red crab Gecarcoidea natalis investigated under field conditions. J Exp Biol 2003; 206:2869-81. [PMID: 12847130 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Land crabs produce isosmotic urine but reduce salt loss by reabsorbing salt via the gills to produce a dilute excretory fluid (P). This branchial salt reclamation is regulated in response to changes in dietary salt availability. The regulation of branchial Na reabsorption and osmotic status was investigated in the terrestrial crab Gecarcoidea natalis on Christmas Island. Confinement within field enclosures had no general effect on salt and water balance compared with crabs free in the rainforest but there were seasonal effects. Extracellular fluid volume was 27.9% body mass during the wet season but only 22.7% in the dry season. Urine production was 53 ml kg(-1) day(-1) in the dry season but 111 ml kg(-1) day(-1) in the wet season, while water flux rates were 140 ml kg(-1) day(-1) and 280 ml kg(-1) day(-1), respectively. Serotonin but not dopamine increased urine production by at least 16% but only during the dry season when rates were seasonally lowered. Crabs acclimated to drinking 50% seawater increased haemolymph osmotic pressure and downregulated branchial reabsorption of salt. Net Na flux (J(net)) and unidirectional Na influx (J(in)) were investigated in branchial perfusion experiments. In red crabs acclimated to drinking freshwater, J(in), J(net) and the activity of the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase were increased by serotonin, indicating that the increase of sodium absorption was due to a stimulation of the ATPase. Red crabs drinking 50% seawater reduced J(net) primarily due to increased passive loss (J(out)), since both J(in) and Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase were unchanged. Serotonin and dopamine abolished the increased diffusive loss and re-established J(net) with no change in J(in). G. natalis exhibits different regulatory systems. Branchial salt uptake can be adjusted via the leak component when adequate salt is available but also by stimulated active uptake under diluting conditions. The gills are important sites of ion pumping in euryhaline aquatic crabs, and the upregulation of J(net) in red crabs is reminiscent of that in marine crabs. Serotonergic stimulation of branchial uptake, independent of cAMP, and hormonally modulated ion leakage are presently unique to terrestrial species.
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- Stephen Morris
- Morlab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK.
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Tierney AJ, Kim T, Abrams R. Dopamine in crayfish and other crustaceans: distribution in the central nervous system and physiological functions. Microsc Res Tech 2003; 60:325-35. [PMID: 12539162 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.10271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Dopamine is widely distributed in the crustacean nervous system and has a diverse array of physiological effects. Immunocytochemical studies of several species have shown that dopamine- and/or tyrosine hydroxylase-containing cells occur in all ganglia of the central nervous system and that processes from some of these cells link ganglia of the ventral nerve cord. This study describes the distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase-containing cells in the central nervous system of a crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) and compares this information to available data from other species. The distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase (an enzyme in the synthetic pathway between tyrosine and dopamine) in O. rusticus is similar to that reported for marine species. However, differences were observed in the number of neurons in some ganglia and in the axonal projections of the L cell, which were more extensive in O. rusticus than in other species studied thus far. We also review the physiological effects of dopamine in crayfish and other crustaceans, focusing on the amine's actions in the endocrine, cardiovascular, and nervous systems, and on behavior when injected into freely-moving animals.
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- Ann Jane Tierney
- Department of Psychology, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York 13346, USA.
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do Carmo Fernandes Santos M. Drinking and osmoregulation in the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus following exposure to benzene. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2002; 133:29-42. [PMID: 12160870 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(02)00105-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In benzene-exposed Ucides cordatus acclimated for 96 h to 9 and 34 per thousand SW, haemolymph, urine and gastric juice are isosmotic with each other, but differ significantly in osmolality from external media. In both salinities, under benzene action, urine K+ excretion and calcium absorption are increased significantly, whereas Na+ absorption and Mg2+ excretion show U/B ratios similar to control values. In 9 per thousand SW, some ionic exchanges via benzene-exposed gills are possibly hastened. Benzene exposure decreases significantly branchial chamber water osmolality, [Na+] and [K+], whereas [Ca2+] and [Mg2+] are unaffected. However, faster medium exchange presumably occurs in 34 per thousand SW, both crab groups show branchial chamber water osmotic and ionic concentrations similar to surrounding medium. Benzene exposure unaffected gastric juice composition. In both media, [Ca2+] and [Mg2] accumulate several times higher than surrounding media, and [Na+] and [K+] are significantly hypo-ionic to haemolymph. Na+ and K+ G/H ratios are lower in crabs acclimated to 34 per thousand SW than in crabs acclimated to 9 per thousand SW. Drinking rates are enhanced by benzene exposure and are higher at 34 per thousand SW than in seawater isosmotic with the haemolymph (26 per thousand SW). Benzene exposure affects significantly osmoregulatory capability, slowing haemolymph dilution after transfer to clean 9 per thousand SW. Lower haemolymph dilution rate accounts for higher osmolality, but 48 h after transfer there is no recovery like in control crabs. Haemolymph transfusion experiments suggest an interaction among effects of benzene and hormonal factors, possibly on water influx.
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- Maria do Carmo Fernandes Santos
- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências and Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, no. 321, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Mo JL, Greenaway P. cAMP and sodium transport in the freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2001; 129:843-9. [PMID: 11440870 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(01)00350-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Crayfish in which sodium absorption was maximally stimulated had elevated levels of both cAMP and Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity in gill tissue. The concentration of cAMP and activity of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in gill tissue were monitored following transfer of crayfish from water containing 125 mmol x l(-1) Na to Na-free media. Both parameters were significantly elevated within 10 min of transfer to Na-free media and [cAMP] peaked between 1 and 2 h before falling transiently to the control level at 3 h. A second peak of [cAMP] and a further rise in Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity were evident 6 h after transfer and elevated levels were then maintained. The pattern observed was consistent with the existence of two separate mechanisms for the control of sodium absorption both of which stimulated the activity of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase via elevation of the intracellular concentration of cAMP. The initial response was very rapid (<10 min) but of brief duration (1-2 h) and this mechanism appeared to be sensitive to changes in external ion levels. The second mechanism exhibited a much longer response time (3-6 h) and duration and was likely to be sensitive to changes in internal ion concentrations.
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- J L Mo
- School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
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Morris S. Neuroendocrine regulation of osmoregulation and the evolution of air-breathing in decapod crustaceans. J Exp Biol 2001; 204:979-89. [PMID: 11171421 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.204.5.979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Gills are the primary organ for salt transport, but in land crabs they are removed from water and thus ion exchanges, as well as CO(2) and ammonia excretion, are compromised. Urinary salt loss is minimised in land crabs by redirecting the urine across the gills where salt reabsorption occurs. Euryhaline marine crabs utilise apical membrane branchial Na(+)/H(+) and Cl(−)/HCO(3)(−) exchange powered by a basal membrane Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase, but in freshwater crustaceans an apical V-ATPase provides for electrogenic uptake of Cl(−) in exchange for HCO(3)(−). The HCO(3)(−) is provided by carbonic anhydrase facilitating CO(2) excretion while NH(4)(+) can substitute for K(+) in the basal ATPase and for H(+) in the apical exchange. Gecarcinid land crabs and the terrestrial anomuran Birgus latro can lower the NaCl concentration of the urine to 5 % of that of the haemolymph as it passes across the gills. This provides a filtration-reabsorption system analogous to the vertebrate kidney. Crabs exercise hormonal control over branchial transport processes. Aquatic hyper-regulators release neuroamines from the pericardial organs, including dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), which via a cAMP-mediated phosphorylation stimulate Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase activity and NaCl uptake. Freshwater species utilise a V-ATPase, and additional mechanisms of control have been suggested. Crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone (CHH) has now also been confirmed to have effects on hydromineral regulation, and a putative role for neuropeptides in salt and water balance suggests that current models for salt regulation are probably incomplete. In a terrestrial crabs there may be controls on both active uptake and diffusive loss. The land crab Gecarcoidea natalis drinking saline water for 3 weeks reduced net branchial Na(+) uptake but not Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase activity, thus implying a reduction in diffusive Na(+) loss. Further, in G. natalis Na(+) uptake and Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase were stimulated by 5-HT independently of cAMP. Conversely, in the anomuran B. latro, branchial Na(+) and Cl(−) uptake and Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase are inhibited by dopamine, mediated by cAMP. There has been a multiple evolution of a kidney-type system in terrestrial crabs capable of managing salt, CO(2) and NH(3) movements.
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- S Morris
- Morlab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK.
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Morris S, Greenaway P, Adamczewska AM, Ahern MD. Adaptations to a terrestrial existence in the robber crab Birgus latro L. IX. Hormonal control of post-renal urine reprocessing and salt balance in the branchial chamber. J Exp Biol 2000; 203:389-96. [PMID: 10607548 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.203.2.389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The terrestrial robber crab Birgus latro L. regulates the composition of its final excretory product (termed P) depending on the availability of dietary salt by reabsorbing ions from urine passed over the gills. Laboratory and field-based studies investigated the nature of the mechanisms of control of this branchial ion uptake. B. latro were prepared such that their branchial chambers could be perfused with artificial urine, and the rate of ion transport from the artificial urine was determined. For B. latro acclimated to drinking fresh water, the rates of Na(+) and Cl(−) uptake were more than four times those of crabs drinking 70 % sea water. Crabs were injected with either saline carrier or the same solution containing either dopamine or dibutyryl cyclic AMP (db-cAMP) (final concentration 8.7×10(−)(7)mol l(−)(1)haemolymph). Dopamine and db-cAMP inhibited Na(+) and Cl(−) uptake in animals acclimated to fresh water and markedly reduced their gill Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase activity. Dopamine stimulated the production of cyclic AMP within the branchial epithelial cells. Dopamine, released from the pericardial organs, acts as a primary messenger, and cyclic AMP acts as a second messenger most likely promoting phosphorylation of membrane proteins. In contrast to aquatic brachyuran crabs, ion transport in B. latro, an anomuran, is controlled via an inhibitory effect. Terrestrial crabs normally have access to fresh water and must salvage salt from their urine, and a mechanism to down-regulate a normally active uptake system seems more appropriate to their ecology. Whether the control is stimulatory or inhibitory in the various air-breathing crabs may depend on the osmoregulatory abilities of their aquatic ancestors, but in either case has significant implications for the evolution of crustaceans to life on land. Further work must establish whether terrestrial brachyuran crabs are similar to B. latro and whether this crab is unique amongst the anomuran crabs.
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- S Morris
- Morlab School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK.
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Lucu C, Flik G. Na+-K+-ATPase and Na+/Ca2+ exchange activities in gills of hyperregulating Carcinus maenas. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 276:R490-9. [PMID: 9950929 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.276.2.r490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Na+-K+-ATPase and Na+/Ca2+ exchange activities were studied in gills of Carcinus maenas in seawater (SW) and after transfer to dilute seawater (DSW). Carcinus hyperregulates its hemolymph osmolarity through active uptake of Na+, Cl-, and Ca2+. In DSW total Na+-K+-ATPase activity in posterior gills quadrupled; Na+/Ca2+ exchange specific activity was unaffected, and total activity increased 1.67-fold. Short-circuit current (Isc) in voltage-clamped posterior gill hemilamellae was -181 microA/cm2 in SW and -290 microA/cm2 in DSW and up to 90% ouabain sensitive; conductivity was similar in SW or DSW (42 and 46 mS/cm2, respectively) and representative of a leaky epithelium. The new steady state of hemolymph osmolarity 24 h after DSW transfer was preceded, already 3 h after transfer, by increased Na+-K+-ATPase but not Na+/Ca2+ exchange activity. Western blot analysis indicated that the amount of Na+-K+-ATPase protein had increased 2.1-fold in crabs acclimated 3 wk to DSW; however, 4 h after DSW transfer no difference in the amount of Na+-K+-ATPase protein was observed. After DSW transfer branchial cAMP content decreased. A negative correlation between branchial Na+-K+-ATPase activity and cAMP content points to rapid regulation of Na+-K+-ATPase through cAMP-dependent protein kinase A activity. Ca2+ transport may depend on the high-capacity Na+/Ca2+ exchanger coupled to the versatile sodium pump.
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- C Lucu
- Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Branchial Na, K-ATPase and osmoregulation in the purple shore crab, Hemigrapsus nudus (Dana). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02076-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pierrot C, Pequeux A, Thuet P. Perfusion of gills isolated from the hyper-hyporegulating crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Crustacea, Decapoda): adaptation of a method. Arch Physiol Biochem 1995; 103:401-9. [PMID: 8548473 DOI: 10.3109/13813459509047129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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This paper reports the adaptation of a branchial perfusion technique to the gills of the small hyper-hyporegulating crab, Pachygrapsus marmoratus. The physiological quality of the preparation has been established and preliminary measurements of the transepithelial potential difference (PD) and sodium fluxes were reported. A clear-cut distinction has to be made between anterior and posterior gills. With symmetrical bathing conditions (same saline on both sides of the epithelium), a significant transepithelial PD was measured only in posterior gills isolated from crabs acclimated to dilute sea water. This hemolymph-side negative PD is shown to require biological energy and to be sensitive to ouabain. Na+ influx was larger than efflux, indicating the occurrence of a net inward of Na+. The active nature of the Na+ influx was established.
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- C Pierrot
- Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Invertébrés, Université Montpellier II, France
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Tsukimura B, Kamemoto FI, Borst DW. Cyclic nucleotide regulation of methyl farnesoate synthesis by the mandibular organ of the lobster,Homarus americanus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402650412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Dopamine as a modulator of ionic transport and glycolytic fluxes in the gills of the chinese crab, Eriocheir sinensis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0742-8413(92)90175-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sommer MJ, Mantel LH. Effects of dopamine and acclimation to reduced salinity on the concentration of cyclic AMP in the gills of the green crab, Carcinus maenas (L). Gen Comp Endocrinol 1991; 82:364-8. [PMID: 1652531 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(91)90311-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Injection of 10(-5) M dopamine into adult green crabs increased the concentration of cyclic AMP (cAMP) in all gills tested. Short-term acclimation (24 hr) of crabs to 40% seawater (sw) also increased the cAMP content of the posterior gills as compared to controls, an effect similar to that seen with injection of dopamine. However, when crabs were acclimated to reduced salinity for 2 weeks, the concentration of cAMP in the gills was not statistically different from that of gills from crabs in 100% sw. It is likely that the physiological effects of dopamine on gills are important in the early stages of acclimation and that they depend upon an increase in concentration of cAMP, which interacts with cellular proteins.
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- M J Sommer
- Technicon Instruments, Tarrytown, New York 10591
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Trausch G, Forget MC, Devos P. Biomines-stimulated phosphorylation and (Na+, K+-ATPase in the gills of the chinese crab, Eriocheir sinensis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(89)90186-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Sommer MJ, Mantel LH. Effect of dopamine, cyclic AMP, and pericardial organs on sodium uptake and Na/K-ATPase activity in gills of the green crabCarcinus maenas (L). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1988. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402480305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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