Data on solute carrier transporter genes of a threatened Himalayan fish species – Schizothorax richardsonii

Organic Anion Transporter 2 (OAT2): An Enigmatic Human Solute Carrier

Organic Anion Transporter 2: An Enigmatic Human Solute Carrier.

As a member of the solute carrier 22A (SLC22A) family, organic anion transporter 2 (OAT2; SLC22A7) is emerging as an important drug transporter because of its expression in both the liver and kidney, two major eliminating organs, and its ability to transport not only a wide variety of xenobiotics but also numerous physiologically important endogenous compounds, like creatinine and cGMP. However...

Larvicidal Fish of Kangra Valley—Schizothorax Progastus

workers (Aitken, 1901; Alcock, 1902; Fry, 1912; Hora, 1927; Graves, 1930; Prashad and Hora, 1936; Covell, 1927 and 1941) confirmed the utility of larvivorous fish in India. The Top Minnow extensively used in Italy, South America and West Indies, and imported into India about 1929 from Italy and Siam, has established its reputation as a valuable larvicide. Three imported and twentytwo indigenous...

Surface architecture of adhesive organ epidermis of Schizothorax richardsonii: adaptive modifications

Adhesive apparatus is the modifications of the skin of the ventral surface. Fast water current is the single most important limiting factor deciding the occurrence and survival of fauna and flora unless equipped with special adaptive features to with-stand the vicissitudes of nature. In hillstream fishes, the presence of adaptive modifications in their body organization is of prime importance f...

ZIP8, member of the solute-carrier-39 (SLC39) metal-transporter family: characterization of transporter properties.

Cadmium is a dangerous metal distributed widely in the environment. Members of our laboratory recently identified the ZIP8 transporter protein, encoded by the mouse Slc39a8 gene, to be responsible for genetic differences in response to cadmium damage of the testis. Stable retroviral infection of the ZIP8 cDNA in mouse fetal fibroblast cultures (rvZIP8 cells) leads to as much as a 10-fold increa...