title: Cell volume maintenance and regulation in kidney tissues of various vertebrates.
abstract: Ouabain-sensitive and ouabain-insensitive mechanisms are shown to participate to a different extent in the cell volume maintenance in kidney tissues of various vertebrates. The ouabain-insensitive mechanisms predominate in the lamprey and in fresh-water fishes, whereas in the flounder, representing sea fishes, there is a complete predominance of the ouabain-sensitive mechanism. In the rabbit kidney cortex tissue the two systems play a comparable role. Analogous inter-species differences are displayed when the cells regulate their volume in anisoosmolar media.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001826:Body Fluids / Q000378:metabolism*; D002347:Carps; D002463:Cell Membrane Permeability; D002712:Chlorides / Q000378:metabolism; D005399:Fishes; D007424:Intracellular Fluid / Q000378:metabolism*; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D007798:Lampreys; D011188:Potassium / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism; D013045:Species Specificity; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance
chemical_list: D002712:Chlorides; D012964:Sodium; D011188:Potassium