Transport Processes, Iono- and Osmoregulation: Current Comparative Approaches

✍ Scribed by Y. Saito, E. M. Wright (auth.), Professor Dr. Raymond Gilles, Dr. Michelle Gilles-Baillien (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 492
• Series: Proceedings in Life Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is one of those published from the proceedings of the invited lectures to the First International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry I organized at Liege (Belgium) in August 1984 under the auspices of the Section of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry of the International Union of Biological Sciences. In a general foreword to these different volumes, it seems to me appropriate to consider briefly what may be the comparative approach. Living organisms, beyond the diversity of their morphological forms, have evolved a widespread range of basic solutions to cope with the different problems, both organismal and environmental with which they are faced. Soon after the turn of the century, some biologists realized that these solutions can be best comprehended in the frame­ work of a comparative approach integrating results of physiological and biochemical studies done at the organismic, cellular and molecular levels. The development of this approach amongst both physiologists and biochemists remained, however, extremely slow until recently.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
cAMP Increases the Apical Cl - Conductance in the Rectal Gland of Squalus acanthias ....Pages 2-8
Control of Chloride Secretion by Intracellular Calcium in the Rat Colon....Pages 9-13
Passive Cl - Currents in Toad Skin: Potential Dependence and Relation to Mitochondria-Rich Cell Density....Pages 14-19
Na + Transport in Toad Bladder Microsomes....Pages 20-30
Apical K + Channels in Frog Skin: A Pathway for K + Excretion....Pages 31-39
Coupling of the Free Energy of Hydrolysis of ATP to Na + Transport Across Frog Skin....Pages 40-55
Front Matter....Pages 56-63
Osmotic Control of Aldosterone Secretion....Pages 65-65
Acute, Delayed, and Chronic Actions of Mineralocorticoids....Pages 66-80
Evidence for Bipolar Effects of Aldosterone in Toad Skin....Pages 81-93
Physiological Mechanisms Underlying the Stimulation of Na Transport in the Toad Urinary Bladder by Aldosterone....Pages 94-107
Mineralocorticoid Regulation of Lower Intestinal Ion Transport....Pages 108-117
Front Matter....Pages 118-133
Ion Transport in Crustacean Gills: Physiological and Ultrastructural Approaches....Pages 135-135
The Function of Carbonic Anhydrase in Crustacean Gills....Pages 136-158
Modes of Ammonia Transport Across Fish Gills....Pages 159-168
Branchial Ion Transfer Processes as Mechanisms for Fish Acid-Base Regulation....Pages 169-176
Peptidergic Control of Transport in the Teleost Gill....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 194-203
Modulation of Transepithelial Cl - Permeability....Pages 205-205
Comparative Aspects of Enterocyte Differentiation....Pages 206-217
Adaptation of Intestinal Sugar and Amino Acid Transport in Vertebrate Evolution....Pages 218-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-239
Electrophysiology of Fish Intestine....Pages 205-205
Transport Across the Invertebrate Intestine....Pages 240-250
The Gut as an Osmoregulatory Organ: Comparative Aspects and Special References to Fishes....Pages 251-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-277
Regulation of Uptake of Free Amino Acids in Eukaryote Marine Organisms....Pages 279-279
Mechanism and Physiological Role of Epidermal Amino Acid Transport in Marine Bivalves....Pages 280-291
Increased Uptake of Nucleosides in the Activation of Sea Urchin Eggs....Pages 292-302
Energy Coupling in Active Transport of Substrates in Leishmania ....Pages 303-325
Transport Physiology of Syncytial Epithelia....Pages 326-333
Nutrient Uptake by Tapeworms....Pages 334-340
The Transport of Exogenous Organic Substances by Invertebrate Integuments: Substrate Compartmentalization, Recycling, Epidermal Metabolism, and Transepidermal Transport....Pages 341-349
Front Matter....Pages 350-363
Cell Volume Maintenance in Isosmotic Conditions....Pages 365-365
Neuronal Adaptations to Osmotic Stress....Pages 366-375
Cell Volume Control and Ion Transport in a Mammalian Cell....Pages 376-388
Volume-Sensitive Passive Potassium Fluxes in Red Cells....Pages 389-400
The Osmotic Role of Amino Acids: Discovery and Function....Pages 401-410
Organic Osmotic Effectors in Cartilaginous Fishes....Pages 412-423
Glycerol and Other Carbohydrate Osmotic Effectors....Pages 424-436
Intracellular pH, Buffering Substances and Proteins: Imidazole Protonation and the Conservation of Protein Structure and Function....Pages 437-453
Molecular Basis of the Biological Compatibility of Nature’s Osmolytes....Pages 454-468
Back Matter....Pages 469-477
....Pages 479-483

✦ Subjects

Biochemistry, general; Plant Sciences