COULD. Blochrrll. Physiol. Vol. 74B, No. 4. PP. i to ii Pergamon Press Ltd. 1983. Printed in Great Britain
COMPARATIVE
BIOCHEMISTRY Contents of Volume 74A Number
Christopher J. Gordon and James E. Heath
479
W. D. Russell-Hunter, David W. Aldridge, Jay S. Tashiro and Barry S. Payne Yoshiro Saimi, Akira Murakami and Keiichi Takahashi Yoshiro Saimi, Akira Murakami and Keiichi Takahashi Ahmed A. Massoud, Bill A. Simco and Kenneth B. Davis T. Briers, E. van Beek and A. De Loof
491
P. Lazarovici,
525
D. Shapira and E. Shaaya
499 507 513 521
H. Assem and W. Hanke
531
S. Abe Hegab and W. Hanke
531
Saverio G. Condb, Bruno Giardina, Andrea Bellelli, Mario Lunadei, Alessandro Ferracin and Maurizio Brunori M. Macari, D. L. Ingram and M. J. Dauncey
545
Thomas E. Hetherington and R. Eric Lombard Henry C. Clifford III and Robert W. Brick
555
Wayne W. Carley, Eugene and Robert T. Mason Yuichi Sasayama, Takeshi Yasuhiko Maki, Motoyuki and Chitaru Oguro Tomoo Hirano and Keiichi
A. Caracciolo
569
Nakayama, Demoto
577
Takahashi
579
549
561
R. C. Dean and A. A. Paparo
587
Jack A. Cranford
595
B. Pilo and J. C. George
601
Richard J. Mishaga and Walter G. Whitford
605
T. E. Thompson
615
David J. Bird and Ian C. Potter
623
I. H. Flack and B. M. Freeman
635
B. M. Freeman, A. C. C. Manning and I. H. Flack Susan Brownlie and J. P. Loveridge
639
Uriel A. Sod-Moriah, Ella Magal, Jacob Kaplanski, Nissan Hirschman and Isaac Nir Yvonne Grimm-Jorgensen
649
653
Michael L. Fine
659
643
AND PHYSIOLOGY 3 1983
Reassessment of the neural control of body temperature: importance of oscillating neural and motor components Oxygen uptake and nitrogenous excretion rates during overwinter degrowth conditions in the pulmonate snail, Hekvna rricohk Electrophysiological correlates of nervous control of Cihary iweSt response in the gill epithelial cells of Mytilus Ciliary and electrical responses to intracellular current injection in the ciliated epithelium of the gill of Mytilus Annual changes in basophilic cell types in the pituitary gland of channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus Ecdysteroid activity during metamorphosis and in male and female adults of four blowfly species Determination of ecdysteroid titers by a double-antibody precipitation in the tropical warehouse moth, Ephestia cautellu (Lepidopteru, Phvcitidue) The significance of the amino acids during osmotic adjustment in teleost fish--I. Changes in the euryhaline Sarotherodon mossamhicus The significance of the amino acids during osmotic adjustment in teleost fish--II. Changes in the stenohaline Cyprinus carpio Comparative studies of hemoglobins from newts (Triturus cristorus, Triturus wlgaris. Triturus alpestris): a kinetic approach Influence of thermal and nutritional acclimation on body temperatures and metabolic rate Mechanisms of underwater hearing in larval and adult tiger salamanders Ambystoma tigrinum Nutritional physiology of the freshwater shrimp Mucrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man)-I. Substrate metabolism in fasting juvenile shrimp Cell and coelomic fluid volume regulation in the earthworm Lu~Ibricus terrestris Effects of environmental Mg and Ca levels on the serum Mg and Ca concentrations in tadpoles and frogs Ionic mechanisms of action potentials in identified neurons of the freshwater snail, Indopkworbis e.xustus (Deshayes) Effects of changes of salinity and calcium concentration on ctenidial ciliary activity in the oyster Crassostrea cirginica (Gmelin) Body temperature, heart rate and oxygen consumption of normothermic and heterothermic western jumping mice (Zapus princeps) Diurnal and seasonal variation in liver glycogen and fat in relation to metabolic status of liver and M. pectoralis in the migratory starling, Sturnus roseus, wintering in India Temperature regulation and metabolism in developing whitenecked ravens Detection of epithelial acid secretions in marine molluscs: review of techniques, and new analytical methods Proximate composition at various stages of adult life in the Southern Hemisphere lamprey. Geotria austrulis Gray Measurement of corticosterone in the peripheral blood of Ga/lt~ domesticus Adrenal cortical activity in the domestic fowl, GaLlus domesricus, following withdrawal of water or food The oxygen consumption of limbed and limbless African skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): circadian rhythms and effect of temperature The role of the pineal gland in thetmoregulation in male hamsters
Erect of thyrotropin releasing hormone on the accumulation CAMP by parietal ganglia of a gastropod Frequency response of the swimbladder of the oyster toadfish
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Donald P. Christian
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August Epple, Barbara Nibbio and Mark S. Trachtman J. R. de Weille
671 671
Ronald P. Brockman
681
Robin A. Chadwick and Gerald L. Klippenstein Dona F. Boggs. Geoffrey F. Birchard and Delbert L. Kilgore. Jr George A. Gerencser and Chitti Chaisetseree
687
George A. Gerencser and Gerry M. Laughlin Albert C. Kirby
701 705
Beatriz Fuentes-Pardo and Javier Ramos-Carvajal H. M. Mousa, K. E. Ali and I. D. Hume
711
K. H. Bajorat and D. Schlichter
721
Brian G. Collins and Peter Briffa
731
John T. R. Fitzsimons
739
and G. A. Kerkut
693 691
715
Water balance in Moitocielp/zis dcmr5trc~ci (Didelphtdac) l‘rom Lllc semiarid Caatinga of Brazil Effects of exogenous somatostatin and antisomatostatm on scrun parameters of the American eel Electrosensory information processing by lateral-ltnc iobc neurons of catfish investigated by means of white noise crosscorrelation Effects of insulin and glucose on the production and utilization of glucose in sheep (Ouis urirs) The oxygen binding properties of myohemerythrin and hemerythrin: effect of p-mercuribenzoate and perchlorate ion Blood characteristics, tracheal volume and heart mass of burrowing owls (Arhrnr cuniculuriu) and bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) Comparative p-aminohippurate transport characteristics in human kidney Extracellular transport properties of Aplysirl ctrliforniccc intestine Physiology of the sternoradialis muscle: sexual dimorphism and role in amplexus in the leopard frog (Runu pipiens) The phase response curve of electroretinographic circadian rhythm of crayfish Effects of water deprivation on urea metabolism in camels. desert sheep and desert goats fed dry desert grass The preparation of brush border membrane vesicles from epidermal tentacle tissue of Anentoniu .sulccctrr (Cnidaria. Anthozoa) and preliminary transport studies Seasonal variations in the energetics of an Australian nectarivorous bird, Lichrneru indistinctu EM localization of ATPase on microtubules of isolated cilia from Tetruhynlena
Francisco Delers, Santiago Musquera, Mauricette Domingo and Christian Lombart Anneliese Margarete Wemick and Carlos Henrique Silva Penteado A. Brunner Jr, 1. S. Sano Martins, C. Y. Mitsutani, J. A. Toledo Bilotta and C. Arairjo Peres A. Ozols and T. Sheshukova
745
M. Alonso-Bedate
765
and M. J. Delgado
749 755
761
Paul T. Kostecki and Jody J. Jones
773
K. A. Jones
777
LWU.Y
Characterization of a chicken hemoglobin-binding protein: a novel haptoglobin Oxygen consumption by the hermit crab. Clthu~turius t+tfuru.s (Bose, 1802) in declining oxygen tensions A relative morphological evaluation of hemoglobin biosynthesis in peripheral blood reticulocytes of normal and anemic rabbits Effects of di- and monosaccharides on the proxime-distal gradient of carbohydrase activity of chick small intestine Effects of prolactin and bromocriptine in Discoylossus pictus (anuran amphibian. OTTH) tadpoles The effect of osmotic and ion-osmotic stresses on the mortality of rainbow trout (Sal,no yuirdneri) Effects of temperature on the activity and orientation of goldfish (Curassius
uurutus)