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New insights into gill ionocyte and ion transporter function in …

Teleost fishes are able to acclimatize to seawater by secreting excess NaCl by means of specialized “ionocytes” in the gill epithelium. Antibodies against Na + /K + -ATPase (NKA) have been used since 1996 as a marker for identifying branchial ionocytes.