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Aquatic nanotoxicity testing: Insights at the biochemical, cellular, and whole animal levels
DownloadFall 2013
Aquatic organisms are susceptible to waterborne nanoparticles and there is only limited understanding of the mechanisms by which these emerging contaminants affect biological processes. The unique properties of nanomaterials necessitate evaluation of standard toxicity testing techniques to...
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Branchial Ionoregulatory Mechanisms of Sodium Regulation in Freshwater Salmonids with Conservational Implications for Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus)
DownloadFall 2016
This thesis on fish osmoregulation focuses particularly on the mechanisms utilized by freshwater salmonids to absorb Na+ ions from dilute hypotonic environments and at the same time, their capacity to make necessary changes in order to tolerate higher saline environments. In this thesis, I...
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Fall 2015
The molecular identity of the Na+ uptake mechanism across the gills of freshwater fish has been the subject of lively debate for decades. Despite the extensive evidence for NHE mediated Na+ uptake, thermodynamic constraints on the function of NHEs at low ion concentrations and low environmental...
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Respiration, Acid/Base, Ammonia and Ionoregulatory Strategies in the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)
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Hagfish feed on putrefied carrion, which poses several environmental challenges to the scavenger including hypoxia (Low PO2), hypercapnia (high PCO2) and high environmental ammonia (HEA). To any other organism, these conditions would be physiologically challenging; however, hagfish seem to have...