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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 184, Issue 1 1-16, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
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DS Neufeld and JN Cameron
University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas 78373.
The regulation of calcium in most crustaceans is especially challenging owing to the highly mineralized cuticle that must be recalcified after each moult, a process that often occurs in environments with low concentrations of calcium. The gill and carapace epithelia separate the major calcium-containing compartments of the body and therefore see large changes in the rate of calcium flux through the moult cycle. Large changes in the ultrastructure of these cells do not, however, correlate well with the periods of calcium movement and probably reflect other physiological events. Despite the challenges to regulating calcium levels at various acclimation salinities and moult stages, the calcium concentration in the blood is maintained relatively constant. There is a rapid increase to a high rate of calcium flux across both the gill and carapace epithelium shortly after the moult; on an area-specific basis these fluxes are among the highest reported for calcium-transporting epithelia. When in water with a very low concentration of calcium, the electrochemical gradient for calcium is directed outwards and net influx must occur by active transport. Evidence suggests that changes in the electrochemical gradient, permeability and active transport are all important in the ability of crustaceans to take up calcium from water with a low concentration of this ion. Although an enzyme transporter is presumably involved in the active transport of calcium across epithelia, very little is known about the cellular mechanism of the transepithelial movement of calcium in crustaceans.
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