Adaptive strategies for post-renal handling of urine in birds

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 246-254

  Laverty, Gary ^a   Skadhauge, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Avian lower intestine; Cloaca; Domestic fowl; Emu (Dromaius novae hollandiae); Kookaburra (Dacelo gigas); Nasal salt gland; Osmoregulation; Ostrich (Struthio camelus)

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BLADDER; ESTUARINE SPECIES; FOWL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PREY; REVIEW; SALT GLAND; SALT STRESS; URETER; URINE; WATER STRESS;

AVES; DACELO GIGAS; DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES; REPTILIA; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; STRUTHIONIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 39949083378     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.01.014     Document Type: Review

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