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9780521106290

Comparative Physiology: Water, Ions and Fluid Mechanics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521106290

  • ISBN10:

    052110629X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-06-09
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This 1978 volume contains papers from contributors to the Third International Conference on Comparative physiology. The Conference selected particular areas for examination. In the first section of this volume the problems of how animals can take up water vapour from the atmosphere are considered as well as advances in studies of how water movements across epithelia are generated by solute movements. The second section deals with how a wide variety of animals, both invertebrate and vertebrate, living under stress in ionically unbalanced environments cope with the unusual difficulties of ionic regulation. In the final section biologists and physicists examine the role of fluid mechanics in biology. Both the theoretical basis of the hydrodynamics and aerodynamics and the biological investigations on the variety of fluid flows encountered inside and around organisms are presented.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Water Transport and Uptake
Mechanisms of Epithelial Fluid Transport:
Intracellular gradients in electrical potential and ion activity in absorptive epithelia
Fluid transport by corneal endothelium
Fluid transport across Nectrus gallbladder epithelium
Observations on the action of ureal and other substances in opening the paracellular pathway in amphibian skins
Uptake of Water Vapour by Arthopods:
Absorption of water vapour by Thermobia domestica and other insects
Water vapour uptake by Tenebrio: a new approach to studying the phenomenon
Uptake of water vapour by mites and mechanisms utilized by the Acareidei
Uptake of water vapour from the air: process, site and mechanism in ticks
The site of water vapour absorption in Arenivaga investigata
Osmotic and Ionic Regulation in Unbalanced Environments
Non-Vertebrates:
Some strategies of osmoregulation and ion transport in microorganisms
Mechanisms of ionic and osmotic regulation in saline-water mosquito larvae
Inhibition of magnesium secretion in the prawn Palaemon serratus by ethacrynic acid and by ligature of the eyestalks
Vertebrates:
Electrolyte transport across the bird coprodeum: role in osmoregulation
Salt glands in marine birds: what triggers secretion and what makes them grow
Aspects of adaptation of fish to high external alkalinity: comparison of Tilapia grahami and T. mossambica
Osmoregulation in Tilapia grahami: a fish in extreme alkalinity
The internal environment of marine fish Ragnar Fänge
Control of catecholamine release from chromaffin tissue in teleost fish
Fluid Mechanisms in Biology:
Fluid propulsion by cilia and flagella
Fluid skeletons in aquatic and terrestrial animals
The fluid mechanics of circulatory systems
Convective flows in mammalian lungs
The aerodynamics of normal hovering flight: three approaches
Index
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