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Fish Physiology

Volume 1, 1969, Pages 1-89
Fish Physiology

1 The Body Compartments and the Distribution of Electrolytes

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This chapter focuses on body compartments and the distribution of electrolytes in fishes. As a physiological parameter in most vertebrates, the total body volume is somewhat meaningless when the distribution and movement of solutes are under consideration. Large portions of the total body volume are occupied by structures having very low turnover rates of metabolites and solutes. For instance, the integument and skeleton of many fishes cannot be considered to be solute pools having significant short-term exchanges of water and solutes with the surrounding tissues and fluids. For this reason, the total body water content is more usefully related to the body compartments because it is the common solute of, and is apportioned between, the major compartments and their subdivisions. The intracellular compartment of any tissue, organ, or organism is defined as the sum of the cellular volumes contained within the limits of the cell membrane. However, the cells are structurally extremely complex and contain structures such as the nucleus, the nucleoli, the mitochondria, the endoplasmic reticulum, and so on. The chapter provides an overview of intracellular compartment and extracellular compartment. It also discusses methods for the determination of body compartments, along with reviewingcompartmental spaces in fish and electrolyte composition.

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