Oxalate, calcium and ash intake and excretion balances in fat sand rats (Psammomys obesus) feeding on two different diets

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-53

  Palgi, Niv ^a   Vatnick, Itzick ^b   Pinshow, Berry ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ash; Calcium; Diet; Excretion; Fat sand rats; Oxalate; Oxalobacter; Saltbush

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; OXALIC ACID; TRIPLEX HALIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ASH; ATRIPLEX; BACTERIUM; CALCIUM EXCRETION; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; SALT INTAKE; URINE;

AMARANTHACEAE; ANIMALIA; ANSER SP.; ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX HALIMUS; ATRIPLEX SUBSPICATA; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; MAMMALIA; OXALOBACTER; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS;

EID: 20444376474     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.03.011     Document Type: Article

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