Kidney and cloaca function in the estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) at different salinities: Evidence for solute-linked water uptake

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 825-831

  Kuchel, Louise J ^a   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alkaline tide; Glomerular filtration rate (GFR); Ionic regulation; Osmoregulation; Salt and water balance; Salt glands; Solute linked water transport

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; SODIUM ION;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; CLOACA; ESTUARY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SODIUM TRANSPORT; WATER TRANSPORT;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; CROCODYLUS POROSUS; ENTEROBACTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032033241     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)01022-8     Document Type: Article

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