Organic osmolytes in the developing kidney of the Australian brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1047-1052

  Bedford, Jennifer J ^a   Leader, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Development; Kidney; Marsupial; Osmolytes; Possum

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; INOSITOL; METHYLAMINE; SORBITOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MASS; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; METATHERIA; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 34249655141     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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