• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.618.5655; http://www2.thu.edu.tw/~biology/files/writing/163_e8494120.pdf

Since Keys & Willmer (1932) first found the secreting chloride cells on the gills of the eel Anguilla anguilla L., numerous studies on various species have confirmed the role of chloride cells in the gills or opercular membrane in ion transport (Pisam & Rambourg, 1991). These cells, later named as chloride cells by Copeland (1948), are generally characterized by the numerous mitochondria and well-developed tubular system (Hwang, 1988a, b; Wendelaar Bonga et al., 1990; Pisam & Rambourg, 1991; Ayson et al., 1994; Lee et al., 1995a; van der Heijden et al., 1997; Shiraishi et al., 1997). For the past 10 years, the term chloride cell has been replaced increasingly by mitochondrion-rich (MR) cell (Ayson et al., 1994) or mitochondria-rich cell (Karnaky et al., 1984; Pisam & Rambourg, 1991;