Osmoregulation in Estuarine and Marine Animals - Proceedings of the Invited Lectures to a Symposium Organized within the 5th Conference of the European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry - Taormina, Sicily, Italy, September 5-8, 1983 (Paperback)

A wealth of information on osmotic and ionic reaulation in Estuarine and Marine Animals has been accumulated over the past decades. Beyond early studies of whole-animal responses to changes in envi- ronmental salinities, efforts have been made later on to identify, to localize and to characterize the organs and structures responsible for the control of the characteristics of the cell's environmental fluid. When considering the problem of cell volume control in animals facing media of fluctuating salinities, we are indeed dealing with two different categories of mechanisms. A first one is concerned with the control of the osmolality of the intracellular fluid, hence with the processes directly implicated in the maintenance of cell volume and shape. They have been extensively described in several recent review papers. The second category includes the processes controllin~ the charac- teristics of the cell's environmental fluid in order to minimize the amplitude of the osmotic shocks the cells may have to cope with upon acclimation to media of changed salinities. They are localized in particular organs and structures : the so-called "caZt-transporting" epithelia. Up to now, most of the studies on salt-transportino epithe- lia in estuarine and marine animals used the black box approach, so that little or sometimes nothing is still known on the physiological, the biochemical and the biophysical basis of the transporting mecha- nisms as well as on the structure-function relationships.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Coastal and Estuarine Studies, 9
Release date:	June 1984
First published:	1984
Editors:	A. Pequeux • R. Gilles • Liana Bolis
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-13353-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Cellular biology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > General
LSN:	3-540-13353-4
Barcode:	9783540133537

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