Physiological and biochemical responses to dietary protein in the omnivore passerine Zonotrichia capensis (Emberizidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 391-396

  Sabat, Pablo ^a,b   Sepúlveda Kattan, Esteban ^a   Maldonado, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Ammonotely; Dietary protein; Osmoregulation; Renal function; Urea; Uric acid; Urine; Zonotrichia capensis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CASEIN; NITROGEN; UREA; URIC ACID;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART SIZE; HEMATOCRIT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY MASS; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN URINE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORY; OSMOSIS; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; URIC ACID URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE OSMOLALITY; ZONOTRICHIA CAPENSIS;

ANIMALIA; EMBERIZINAE; PASSERIFORMES; ZONOTRICHIA CAPENSIS;

EID: 0442307962     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2003.10.021     Document Type: Article

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