Amphibia are faced with various osmoregulatory problems and their skin is evolved as a highly efficient transport epithelium for water and ions, and so it is an organ intensely involved in the homeostatic processes. For years, the frog skin has been the guiding model for ion transport and many studies are made to put in evidence the presence and the localization of ionic channels, molecular transporter and also of enzymatic activities, possibly involved in the compensation of salt and water loss. Our investigations have the aim to verify if the mantle of Unio pictorum mancus, a freshwater shell-fish living in the same fresh water habitat of amphibia, presents analogous functions and mechanisms of ionic exchange

Il tegumento degli anfibi proposto come modello per lo studio del mantello dei molluschi lamellibranchi.

DORE, Bruno Emilio;DONNA, Daniela;ANDREOLETTI, Gian Emilio;LODI, Giovanni;PATTONO, Paola Maria;
2001-01-01

Abstract

Amphibia are faced with various osmoregulatory problems and their skin is evolved as a highly efficient transport epithelium for water and ions, and so it is an organ intensely involved in the homeostatic processes. For years, the frog skin has been the guiding model for ion transport and many studies are made to put in evidence the presence and the localization of ionic channels, molecular transporter and also of enzymatic activities, possibly involved in the compensation of salt and water loss. Our investigations have the aim to verify if the mantle of Unio pictorum mancus, a freshwater shell-fish living in the same fresh water habitat of amphibia, presents analogous functions and mechanisms of ionic exchange
2001
3° Congresso Nazionale Societas Herpetologica Italica
Pavia
14 - 16 settembre 2000
PIANURA - scienze e storia dell'ambiente padano. Atti 3°Congresso Nazionale Societas Herpetologica Italica
Monotipia Cremonese
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frog skin; ion transport; ionic channels; Unio
DORE B.; DONNA D.; ANDREOLETTI G.E.; LODI G.; PATTONO P.; SAVARDI L.; OLIVERO M.
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