Front Cover; Cell Volume Control: Fundamental and Comparative Aspects in Animal Cells; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Yale Membrane Transport Processes Volumes; PART I: VOLUME CONTROL IN ISOSMOTIC CONDITIONS; Chapter 1. Volume Maintenance in Isosmotlc Conditions; I. Introduction; II. Experimental Approaches to Study Cellular Volume; III. Questions of Cell Organization; IV. The Magnitude of the Osmotic Forces Generated by Impermeant Cellular Solutes; V. What Are the Cellular Impermeant Solutes?; VI. How Is the Cellular Osmotic Swelling Force Offset?; VII. What Limits Cellular Swelling?

VIII. The Role of Medium Anions in Cell Volume RegulationIX. Summary; References; Chapter 2. Role of Cytoplasmic Vesicles in Volume Maintenance; I. Introduction; II. Examples of Water Movement and Compartmentalization; III. Volume Regulation in Vertebrates; IV. Ion Transport by Intracellular Membranes; V. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. The Cell Cytoskeleton: Possible Role in Volume Control; I. Introduction; II. Cell Shape and the Cytoskeleton; III. Membrane-Cytoskeletal Interactions; IV. Relationship between Cell Volume and Cell Shape

V. Possible Role of the Cytoskeleton in the Mechanism of Cell Volume ControlVI. Cytoskeleton and Cell Volume in MDCK Cells; VII. Summary; References; PART II: VOLUME CONTROL IN ANISOSMOTIC CONDITIONS; Chapter 4. Volume Regulation In Epithelia; I. Introduction; II. Basic Principles for the Maintenance of Epithelial Cell Volume during Steady-State Conditions; III. Transepithelial NaCl Transport; IV. Response of Epithelial Cell Volume to Osmotic Perturbations; V. Methods for Measuring Cell Volume Changes; VI. Volume Regulatory Increase: Necturus Gallbladder Epithelium

VII. Volume Regulatory DecreaseVIII. Physiological Significance of Volume Regulation; References; Chapter 5. Volume Regulation in Cultured Cells; I. Introduction; II. Classification of the Ion Transport Mechanisms Involved in Volume Regulation; Ill. Regulatory Volume Increase (RVI); IV. Regulatory Volume Decrease (RVD); V. Summary and Perspectives; References; Chapter 6. Cell Volume Regulation in Lower Vertebrates; I. Evolutionary Considerations; II. Environmental Considerations; Ill. Cell Solute Composition; IV. Changes in Cell Composition during Osmotic Stress

V. Extracellular Fluid Regulation and Cell Volume ControlVI. Role of Intracellular Osmolytes in the Mechanism of Cell Volume Regulation; VII. Cell Volume Maintenance and the Role of the Cytoskeleton; References; Chapter 7. Volume Regulation in Cells of Euryhaline Invertebrates; I. Introduction; II. Coping with Changes in Membrane Tension and Cell Volume: Cell Volume Control in Anisosmotic Media; III. Coping with Changes in Ion Content: Modification in Structure and Activity of Macromolecular Components; IV. Conclusions; References; PART III: PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROSPECTIVES