Osmoregulatory response to acute diet change in an avian nectarivore: Rapid rehydration following water shortage

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 321-326

  Fleming, P A ^a   Gray, D A ^b   Nicolson, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African sunbirds; ALDO; Aldosterone; aldosterone; arginine vasotocin; AVT; CF; cloacal fluid; Cloacal fluid; evaporative water loss; EWL; H0 to H12; Nectar feeding; Osmoregulation; Rehydration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIET; FLUID INTAKE; FOWL; MEASUREMENT; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOREGULATION; REHYDRATION; STEADY STATE; SUGAR INTAKE;

AVES; NECTARINIA; NECTARINIA TALATALA;

EID: 4143152834     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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