Kidney function and the role of arginine vasotocin in three agamid lizards from habitats of differing aridity in Western Australia

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-69

  Ford, S S ^a   Bradshaw, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agamid; AVT; Desert; Kidney function; Lizard

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN; WATER; VASOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDIURESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DESERT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPERNATREMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SPECIES COMPARISON; URINE FLOW RATE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER LOADING; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; BODY WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESERT CLIMATE; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; ENVIRONMENT; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BODY WATER; DEHYDRATION; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; KIDNEY; LIZARDS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSINS; VASOTOCIN; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33747143504     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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