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Expression and Functional Characterization of Four Aquaporin Water Channels From the European Eel (Anguilla anguilla)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Publication Title
The Bulletin: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
DOI
10.1242/jeb.025882
ISSN
0097-0883
Abstract
The eel is a euryhaline teleost. In order to maintain osmotic equilibrium the animal must resist loss of body water and solutes to the sea, and to resist volume expansion from influx of free water in fresh water (FW) environments. The epithelial contact surfaces of the eel are prime sites for water and solute exchange and the gill with its high surface area for gas exchange represents a vulnerable site for osmotically driven uptake or loss of body water1. Likewise, the gastrointestinal tract must employ ion exchange and water transport mechanisms which permit volume homeostasis6.
Recommended Citation
MacIver, Bryce, Myles G. Hill, Soloman Greenberg, Mark L. Zeidel, Christopher P. Cutler, Warren G. Hill.
2007.
"Expression and Functional Characterization of Four Aquaporin Water Channels From the European Eel (Anguilla anguilla)."
The Bulletin: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, 46: 147-150.
doi: 10.1242/jeb.025882 source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19684221
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