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Carbonic anhydrase activity in a calcium-mobilizing epithelium of the crustacean Orchestia cavimana during molting

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We investigated the involvement of the enzyme, carbonic anhydrase, in the calcification-decalcification processes occurring in the posterior caeca of the midgut of the terrestrial crustacean, Orchestia cavimana, before and after exuviation. This enzyme was ultrahistochemically localized throughout the membranes of the caecal epithelium as well as extracellularly, i.e., within pre-exuvial calcareous concretions and postexuvial calcified spherules. During the molt cycle, the pattern of carbonic anhydrase activity in the posterior caeca was correlated with the calcium content at this level. Acetazolamide treatment in vivo inhibited about 50% of the calcium uptake during both pre-exuvial secretion and postexuvial reabsorption. The role of carbonic anhydrase in this mineralizing-demineralizing epithelium is discussed and compared with that of other mechanisms involved in this calcium turnover.

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  2. Laboratoire d'Anatomie Comparée, Université Paris VII, 2, Place Jussicu, F-75251, Paris Cédex 05, France

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Meyran, J.C., Graf, F. & Fournié, J. Carbonic anhydrase activity in a calcium-mobilizing epithelium of the crustacean Orchestia cavimana during molting. Histochemistry 87, 419–429 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00496813

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