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Title: | Rapid regulation of Na+ fluxes and ammonia excretion in response to acute environmental hypoxia in the Amazonian oscar, Astronotus ocellatus |
Authors: | Wood, Chris M. Kajimura, Makiko Sloman, Katherine A. Scott, Graham R. Walsh, Patrick J. Val, Vera Maria Fonseca Almeida e Val, Adalberto Luis |
Keywords: | Adenosine Triphosphatase (potassium Sodium) Ammonia Formation Anaerobic Capacity Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Disease Severity Enzyme Activity Hypoxia Michaelis Menten Kinetics Nitrogen Balance Nitrogen Metabolism Nitrogen Urine Level Nonhuman Priority Journal Sodium Transport Teleost Ammonia Animal Body Size Cichlids Environment Hydrogen-ion Concentration Oxygen Sodium Urea Water Water-electrolyte Balance |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | American Journal of Physiology-regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 292, Número 5, Pags. R2048-R2058 |
Abstract: | The Amazonian oscar is extremely resistant to hypoxia, and tolerance scales with size. Overall, ionoregulatory responses of small (∼15 g) and large oscars (∼200 g) to hypoxia were qualitatively similar, but the latter were more effective. Large oscars exhibited a rapid reduction in unidirectional Na+ uptake rate at the gills during acute hypoxia (PO2 ∼ 10 mmHg), which intensified with time (7 or 8 h); Na+ efflux rates were also reduced, so net balance was little affected. The inhibitions were virtually immediate (1st h) and preceded a later 60% reduction (at 3 h) in gill Na+-K+-ATPase activity, reflected in a 60% reduction in maximum Na+ uptake capacity without change in affinity (Km) for Na+. Upon acute restoration of normoxia, recovery of Na+ uptake was delayed for 1 h. These data suggest that dual mechanisms may be involved (e.g., immediate effects of O2 availability on transporters, channels, or permeability, slower effects of Na+-K +-ATPase regulation). Ammonia excretion appeared to be linked indirectly to Na+ uptake, exhibiting a Michaelis-Menten relationship with external [Na+], but the Km was less than for Na+ uptake. During hypoxia, ammonia excretion fell in a similar manner to Na + fluxes, with a delayed recovery upon normoxia restoration, but the relationship with [Na+] was blocked. Reductions in ammonia excretion were greater than in urea excretion. Plasma ammonia rose moderately over 3 h hypoxia, suggesting that inhibition of excretion was greater than inhibition of ammonia production. Overall, the oscar maintains excellent homeostasis of ionoregulation and N-balance during severe hypoxia. Copyright © 2007 the American Physiological Society. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1152/ajpregu.00640.2006 |
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