Plasma calcium and calcitonin levels in eels fed a high calcium solution or transferred to seawater

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 324-329

  Suzuki, Nobuo ^a   Suzuki, Daisuke ^a   Sasayama, Yuichi ^a   Srivastav, Ajai K ^b   Kambegawa, Akira ^c   Asahina, Kiyoshi ^d  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b D D U GORAKHPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Kambegawa Laboratory   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcitonin; Eel; Food ingestion; Plasma calcium; Seawater adaptation

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CALCIUM ION; SEA WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEOST;

EID: 0033060701     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7261     Document Type: Article

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