Fish Osmoregulation

ISBN-13: 9781578084470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 540 str.

Opis

Fish lives in environments with a wide variety of chemical characteristics (fresh, brackish and seawater, acidic, alkaline, soft and hard waters). From an osmoregulatory point of view, fish have developed several mechanisms to live in these different environments. Fish osmoregulation has always attracted considerable attention and in the last years several studies have increased our knowledge of this physiological process. In this book several specialists have analyzed and reviewed the new data published regarding fish osmoregulation. The chapters present an integrative synthesis of the different aspects of this field focusing on osmoregulation in specific environments or situations, function of osmoregulatory organs, general mechanisms and endocrine control. In addition, interactions of osmoregulatory mechanisms with the immune system, diet and metabolism were also reviewed. New emerging techniques to study osmoregulation has also been analysed.

Spis treści

PrefaceList of Contributors1. Immune and Osmoregulatory System InteractionAlberto Cuesta, José Meseguer and M. Ángeles Esteban2. The Involvement of the Thyroid Gland inTeleost OsmoregulationPeter H.M. Klaren, Edwin J.W. Geven and Gert Flik3. Diet and OsmoregulationFrancesca W. Ferreira and Bernardo Baldisserotto4. The Renin-Angiotensin Systems of Fish andtheir Roles in OsmoregulationJ. Anne Brown and Neil Hazon5. Effect of Water pH and Hardness on Survivaland Growth of Freshwater TeleostsJorge Erick Garcia Parra and Bernardo Baldisserotto6. Arginine Vasotocin and Isotocin: Towardstheir Role in Fish OsmoregulationEwa Kulczykowska7. Cellular and Molecular Approaches to theInvestigation of Piscine Osmoregulation:Current and Future PerspectivesChris N. Glover8. Osmoregulation and Fish TransportationPaulo César Falanghe Carneiro,Elisabeth Criscuolo Urbinati and Fabiano Bendhack9. Special Challenges to Teleost Fish Osmoregulationin Environmentally Extreme or Unstable HabitatsCarolina A. Freire and Viviane Prodocimo10. Energy Metabolism and Osmotic Acclimation inTeleost FishJosé L. Soengas, Susana Sangiao-Alvarellos,Raúl Laiz-Carrión and Juan M. Mancera11. The Renal Contribution to Salt and Water BalanceM. Danielle McDonald12. Intestinal Transport Processes in MarineFish OsmoregulationMartin Grosell13. The Use of Immunochemistry in the Study ofBranchial Ion Transport MechanismsJonathan Mark Wilson14. Rapid Regulation of Ion Transport inMitochondrion-rich CellsWilliam S. Marshall15. Control of Calcium Balance in FishPedro M. Guerreiro and Juan Fuentes16. Role of Prolactin, Growth Hormone, Insulin-likeGrowth Factor I and Cortisol in Teleost OsmoregulationJuan Miguel Mancera and Stephen D. McCormickIndex

O autorze

Baldisserotto, Bernardo ; Romero, J.M. Mancera; Kapoor, B.G.