Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Communicating (gap) junctions between chloride cells in the gill epithelium of the lamprey, Geotria australis

  • Published:
Cell and Tissue Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Summary

Freeze-fracture replicas show that communicating (gap) junctions are present between chloride cells in the gill epithelium of young adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey, Geotria australis, acclimated to full-strength sea water. The junctions, which were already present when these lampreys were migrating downstream, may help coordinate the secretory activities of the chloride cells during the marine phase of the lamprey life cycle.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Bartels H, Hilliard RW, Potter IC (1987) Structural changes in the plasma membrane of chloride cells in the gills of sea water-and fresh water-adapted lampreys. J Cell Biol 105:305a

    Google Scholar 

  • Ernst SA, Dodson WB, Karnaky KJ Jr (1980) Structural diversity of occluding junctions in the low-resistance chloride-secreting opercular epithelium of seawater-adapted killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). J Cell Biol 87:488–497

    Google Scholar 

  • Foskett JK, Machen TE (1985) Vibrating probe analysis of teleost opercular epithelium: correlation between active transport and leaky pathways of individual chloride cells. J Membr Biol 85:25–35

    Google Scholar 

  • Foskett JK, Scheffey C (1982) The chloride cell: definitive identification as the salt-secretory cell in teleosts. Science 215:164–166

    Google Scholar 

  • Hardisty MW (1979) Biology of the cyclostomes. Chapman and Hall, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Hatae T, Benedetti EL (1982) Mosaic structure in the plasma membrane: spiral arrays of subunits in the cytoplasmic tubules of lamprey chloride cells. J Cell Sci 56:441–452

    Google Scholar 

  • Hooper ML, Subak-Sharpe JH (1981) Metabolic cooperation between cells. Int Rev Cytol 69:45–104

    Google Scholar 

  • Karnaky KJ Jr (1986) Structure and function of the chloride cell of Fundulus heteroclitus and other teleosts. Am Zool 26:209–224

    Google Scholar 

  • Kikuchi S (1977) Mitochondria-rich (chloride) cells in the gill epithelia from four species of stenohaline freshwater teleosts. Cell Tissue Res 180:87–98

    Google Scholar 

  • McNutt NS (1977) Freeze-fracture techniques and applications to the structural analysis of the mammalian plasma membrane. In: Poste G, Nicolson GL (eds) Dynamic aspects of the cell surface organization. North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, pp 75–126

    Google Scholar 

  • Morris R (1957) Some aspects of the structure and cytology of the gills of Lampetra fluviatilis. Q J Microsc Sci 98:473–485

    Google Scholar 

  • Morris R (1972) Osmoregulation. In: Hardisty WM, Potter IC (eds) The biology of lampreys. Vol. 2. Academic Press, London, pp 192–239

    Google Scholar 

  • Nakao T (1974) Fine structure of the agranular cytoplasmic tubules in the lamprey chloride cells. Anat Rec 178:49–62

    Google Scholar 

  • Peek WD, Youson JH (1979a) Ultrastructure of chloride cells in young adults of the anadromous sea laymprey, Petromyzon marinus L., in fresh water and during adaptation to sea water. J Morphol 160:143–163

    Google Scholar 

  • Peek WD, Youson JH (1979b) Transformation of the interlamellar epithelium of the gills of the anadromous sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus L., during metamorphosis. Can J Zool 57:1318–1332

    Google Scholar 

  • Perracchia C (1980) Structural correlates of gap junction permeation. Int Rev Cytol 66:81–146

    Google Scholar 

  • Philpott CW, Copeland DE (1963) Fine structure of chloride cells from three species of Fundulus. J Cell Biol 18:389–404

    Google Scholar 

  • Pisam M, Prunet P, Boeuf G, Rambourg A (1988) Ultrastructural features of chloride cells in the gill epithelium of the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, and their modifications during smoltification. Am J Anat 183:235–244

    Google Scholar 

  • Potter IC, Huggins RJ (1973) Observations on the morphology, behaviour and salinity tolerance of downstream migrating river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis). J Zool 169:365–379

    Google Scholar 

  • Potter IC, Hilliard RW, Bird DJ (1980) Metamorphosis in the Southern Hemisphere lamprey, Geotria australis. J Zool 190:405–430

    Google Scholar 

  • Sardet C, Pisam M, Maetz J (1979) The surface epithelium of teleostean fish gills. Cellular and junctional adaptations of the chloride cell in relation to salt adaptation. J Cell Biol 80:96–117

    Google Scholar 

  • Spray DC, Bennett MVL (1985) Physiology and pharmacology of gap junctions. Annu Rev Physiol 47:281–303

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Cell Biology and Electron Microscopy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Federal Republic of Germany

    H. Bartels

  2. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

    I. C. Potter

Authors
  1. H. Bartels
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. I. C. Potter
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bartels, H., Potter, I.C. Communicating (gap) junctions between chloride cells in the gill epithelium of the lamprey, Geotria australis . Cell Tissue Res 259, 393–395 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00318463

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00318463

Key words

Search

Navigation