Seawater drinking restores water balance in dehydrated harp seals

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 535-542

  How, Ole Jakob ^a,b   Nordøy, Erling S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Harp seals; Mariposa; Phoca groenlandica; Seals; Seawater drinking; Water balance

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; MANNITOL; OSMOTIC DIURETIC AGENT; SEA WATER; SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WATER; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEHYDRATION; DRINKING; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; URINE;

ANIMALS; BODY WATER; CHLORIDES; DEHYDRATION; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; DRINKING; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; MANNITOL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SEALS, EARLESS; SEAWATER; SODIUM; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA; PHOCA GROENLANDICA;

EID: 34249864782     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-007-0152-9     Document Type: Article

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