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Stress from air emersion fails to alter chloride cell numbers in the gills of rainbow trout |
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| Authors: | K. A. Sloman A. C. Taylor N.B. Metcalfe K. M. Gilmour |
| Affiliation: | Fish Biology Group, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland |
| Abstract: | Air emersion stress caused an elevation in blood plasma cortisol of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss but this acute stressor did not elicit chloride cell proliferation in the gill tissue within 2 weeks following the disturbance. |
| Keywords: | chloride cells cortisol gill rainbow trout |