RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Fate of Glomerular Filtration Markers Injected Into the Haemolymph of the Amphibious Crab <em>Holthuisana Transversa</em>
JF Journal of Experimental Biology
JO J. Exp. Biol.
FD The Company of Biologists Ltd
SP 339
OP 347
VO 91
IS 1
A1 GREENAWAY, PETER
YR 1981
UL http://jeb.biologists.org/content/91/1/339.abstract
AB 1. Three glomerular filtration markers injected into Holthuisana transversa disappeared from the haemolymph at very different rates. Polyethylene glycol 4000 disappeared at a rate ca. 5 times faster than Cr-EDTA and ca. 15 times faster than inulin. Inulin and Cr-EDTA were excreted by the crab but only 5 % of the injected PEG 4000 left the body.2. Inulin injected into the excretory organs was reabsorbed into the haemolymph.3. The reliability of commonly used glomerular nitration rate markers as indicators of filtration in decapods is discussed.