Hyperammonemia, arising from variety of disorders, leads to severe neurological
dysfunction. The mechanisms of ammonia toxicity in brain are not completely understood …

To investigate the ammonia detoxification pathways of the cuttlefish, Sepia pharaonis, the
effects of environmental ammonia nitrogen exposure (control, 1, 3, and 6 mg/L) on nitrogen …

Abstract The African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus lives in freshwater, is an
obligatory air breather, and can survive on land during drought. The objective of this study …

Bioassays in static water (mean±SD; temperature, 20–22 C; pH, 8.2–8.4; alkalinity, 205±10
mg/L CaCO3; total hardness, 220±10 mg/L CaCO3) were used to determine median lethal …

Nitrogen (N) appears to be a limiting dietary resource for elasmobranchs, required not only
for protein growth but also for urea-based osmoregulation. Building on recent evidence that …

Ammonia can cause adverse reproductive and mortality effects in individual fish by
interacting with the central nervous system. The last published study that assessed the …

Ammonia pollutants were usually found in aquatic environments is due to urban sewage,
industrial wastewater discharge, and agricultural runoff and concentrations as high as 180 …

Turbot juveniles were exposed to four ammonia concentrations [0· 17 (L), 0· 34 (M), 0· 73
(MH) and 0· 88 (H) mg l− 1 NH3‐N] for different exposure durations (28 days minimum to 84 …

Incorporation of 15N-ammonia into five nitrogenous components (Ammonia-N, Amide-N,
Amino-N, Urea-N and Protein-N) in tissue was compared among the blood, brain, liver, gill …

Monopterus albus inhabits muddy ponds, swamps, canals, and rice fields, where it can
burrow into the moist earth, and it survives for long periods during the dry summer season …