Responses to reversed NH3 and NH4+ gradients in a teleost (Ictalurus punctatus), an elasmobranch (Raja erinacea), and a crustacean (Callinectes sapidus):evidence for NH4+/H+ exchange in the teleost and the elasmobranch

The Journal of Experimental Zoology
J N Cameron

Abstract

Ammonia excretion rates of channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, little skate (Raja erinacea), and blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) were measured in experimental regimes which permitted simultaneous assessment of the partial pressure gradients for nonionized NH3 and the chemical concentration gradients of NH4+. Under conditions of low external ammonia, the average ammonia excretion was +295 microM kg-1 h-1 for catfish, +149 microM kg-1 h-1 for blue crabs, and +59 microM kg-1 h1 for skates with partial pressure gradients of +72.5 mu Torr, +413 mu Torr, and +24.4 mu Torr, respectively; and [NH4+] gradients of +189 microM l-1, +643 microM l-1, and +107 microM l-1 (positive indicating greater from inside to medium). When the external ammonia was increased to 1.15 mM l-1, both gradients were reversed, and the net ammonia movement was initially from the external water into all three species. In the catfish the inward movement ceased, however, and ammonia excretion eventually resumed in the face of reversed gradients of both NH3 partial pressure and [NH4+]. Unidirectional Na+ influx, indicative of a Na+/NH4+ exchange, did not increase. The ammonia data, changes in titratable acidity, and net apparent H+ efflux were all consistent with ...Continue Reading

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