Fish Osmoregulation

Through this complex interaction of kidneys, gills and intestine, fish are able to adapt to the salinity of their environment. In this collection of 16 articles, contributors describe how osmoregulation works and how it relates to other functions, particularly the immune system. Topics include immune and osmoregulatory interaction, the renin-angiotensin systems of fish, the effects of water acidity and hardness on the survival and growth of freshwater teleosts, cellular and molecular approaches, fish transportation, extreme or unstable habitats and their impact on teleosts, renal contributions to water and salt balance, immunochemistry in branchial ion transport, rapid regulation of ion transport in mitochondrion-rich cells, and the effects of diet, arginine vasotocin and isotocin, energy metabolism and osmotic acclimation, intestinal transport processes, calcium, prolactin, growth hormones, insulin-like growth factors, cortisol and the thyroid gland. Distributed in the US by Enfield. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)