1. Immune and osmoregulatory system interaction / Alberto Cuesta, Jos ̌Meseguer and M. ℓngeles Esteban -- 2. The involvement of the thyroid gland in teleost osmoregulation / Peter H.M. Klaren, Edwin J.W. Geven and Gert Flik -- 3. Diet and osmoregulation / Francesca W. Ferreira and Bernardo Baldisserotto -- 4. The Renin-Angiotensin systems of fish and their roles in osmoregulation / J. Anne Brown and Neil Hazon -- 5. Effect of water pH and hardness on survival and growth of freshwater teleosts / Jorge Erick Garcia Parra and Bernardo Baldisserotto -- 6. Arginine vasotocin and isotocin : towards their role in fish osmoregulation / Ewa Kulczykowska -- 7. Cellular and molecular approaches to the investigation of piscine osmoregulation : current and future perspectives / Chris N. Glover -- 8. Osmoregulation and fish transportation / Paulo Cšar Falanghe Carneiro, Elisabeth Criscuolo Urbinati and Fabiano Bendhack -- 9. Special challenges to teleost fish osmoregulation in environmentally extreme or unstable habitats / Carolina A. Freire and Viviane Prodocimo -- 10. Energy metabolism and osmotic acclimation in teleost fish / Jos ̌L. Soengas ... [et al.] -- 11. The renal contribution to salt and water balance / M. Danielle McDonald -- 12. Intestinal transport processes in marine fish osmoregulation / Martin Grosell -- 13. The use of immunochemistry in the study of branchial ion transport mechanisms / Jonathan Mark Wilson -- 14. Rapid regulation of ion transport in mitochrondrion-rich cells / William S. Marshall -- 15. Control of calcium balance in fish / Pedro M. Guerreiro and Juan Fuentes -- 16. Role of prolactin, growth hormone, insulin-life growth factor I and cortisol in teleost osmoregulation / Juan Miguel Mancera and Stephen D. McCormick.