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The Swimbladder of Deep-Sea Fish: The Swimbladder Wall is a Lipid-Rich Barrier to Oxygen Diffusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. B. Wittenberg ,
D. E. Copeland ,
F R. L. Haedrich  and
J. S. Child
J. B. Wittenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10461, U.S.A.
D. E. Copeland
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, U.S.A.
F R. L. Haedrich
Affiliation:
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's A1B 3X9, Canada.
J. S. Child
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, U.S.A.
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The swimbladder of teleost fishes is a gas-filled sac which serves primarily to make the fish neutrally buoyant in sea water, but occasionally assumes other functions. The gas contained in the swimbladder is largely oxygen, at a pressure very close to the external hydrostatic pressure. The difference in gas partial pressure between the gaseous contents of the swimbladder and the blood and tissue fluids is large in fishes living at any considerable depth, for the hydrostatic pressure increases about 1 atm with each 10 m depth, while the partial pressures of gases in sea water and body fluids are relatively independent of depth and together give a pressure of only about 1 atm. The difference in partial pressure of oxygen alone across the wall of the swimbladder of a fish living at 3000 m depth is close to 300 atm.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , May 1980 , pp. 263 - 276
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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