"Gills" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Paired respiratory organs of fishes and some amphibians that are analogous to lungs. They are richly supplied with blood vessels by which oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged directly with the environment.
| Descriptor ID |
D005880
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A13.421
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gills" by people in Profiles.
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Macirella R, Madeo G, Sesti S, Tripepi M, Bernab? I, Godbert N, La Russa D, Brunelli E. Exposure and post-exposure effects of chlorpyrifos on Carassius auratus gills: An ultrastructural and morphofunctional investigation. Chemosphere. 2020 Jul; 251:126434.
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Macirella R, Sesti S, Bernab? I, Tripepi M, Godbert N, Brunelli E. Lead toxicity in seawater teleosts: A morphofunctional and ultrastructural study on the gills of the Ornate wrasse (Thalassoma pavo L.). Aquat Toxicol. 2019 Jun; 211:193-201.
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Macirella R, Tripepi M, Brunelli E. Morphological and Immunohistochemical Modifications in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Gills After Short-Term Exposure to the Fungicide Tebuconazole. Zebrafish. 2019 02; 16(1):65-76.
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Glazier DS, Paul DA. Ecology of ontogenetic body-mass scaling of gill surface area in a freshwater crustacean. J Exp Biol. 2017 Jun 01; 220(Pt 11):2120-2127.
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Bernab? I, Bonacci A, Coscarelli F, Tripepi M, Brunelli E. Effects of salinity stress on Bufo balearicus and Bufo bufo tadpoles: Tolerance, morphological gill alterations and Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase localization. Aquat Toxicol. 2013 May 15; 132-133:119-33.
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Gainey LF, Greenberg MJ. Hydrogen sulfide is synthesized in the gills of the clam Mercenaria mercenaria and acts seasonally to modulate branchial muscle contraction. Biol Bull. 2005 Aug; 209(1):11-20.
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Gainey LF, Greenberg MJ. Nitric oxide mediates seasonal muscle potentiation in clam gills. J Exp Biol. 2003 Oct; 206(Pt 19):3507-20.