Effect of hypernatraemia and the neurohypophysial peptide, arginine vasotocin (AVT) on behavioural thermoregulation in the agamid lizard, Ctenophorus ornatus

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-40

  Bradshaw, Don ^a   Ladyman, Mitchell ^a   Stewart, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agamid; AVT; Hormone; Hypernatraemia; Salt loading; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYSIS; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIZARD; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 33845230917     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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