Osmotic and hydrostatic permeability of the integument of the starfishAsterias rubensL.
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 60 (3) , 627-630
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400040315
Abstract
The hydrostatic permeability of the aboral integument of the starfishAsterias rubensL. was found to be 5·1 ± 2·1 × 10−6cm3/cm2/s/cm H2O. A sudden increase in permeability around 5 cm water pressure was found to coincide with the bursting of the dermal branchiae.The area of protracted dermal branchiae per cm2of aboral integument has been estimated and, if only this region represents the permeable areas of the skin, the above figure may well rise to 1 × 10−5cm3/cm2/s/cm H2O.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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