Water intake and excretion, urinary solute excretion and some stress indicators in mink (Mustela vison): Effect of ambient temperature and quantitative water supply to lactating females

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 555-564

  Tauson, Anne Helene ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mink; Stress; Urinary electrolytes; Water balance

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; ELECTROLYTE; HYDROCORTISONE; SODIUM ION; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURESIS; ELECTROLYTE URINE LEVEL; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; FEMALE; FLUID BALANCE; FLUID INTAKE; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; MINK; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; STRESS; URINE OSMOLALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WELLBEING;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 0032448576     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007114598001652     Document Type: Article

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