Effects of High Pressure on Ion Transport and Osmoregulation

摘要: Any organism in an aquatic environment is subjected to varying degrees of hydrostatic pressure. This particularly true marine environments where pressure ranges from less than one atmosphere at the surface around thousand atmospheres bottom deep sea trenches. In fresh waters too, pressures up 40 atm may be encountered and Lake Baikal Siberia, which 1620 meters deep, even exhibits order 162 (Gordon, 1970). The knowledge how affects biological systems therefore becomes extremely important a better thorough understanding physiology organisms.