Studies on urea formation in homing pigeons

Zoology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 94-100

  Bordel, Reingart ^a,b   Haase, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arginine; NH4< inf>^{+< sup>; Ornithine urea cycle; Protein; Uric acid}

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039521841     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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