Central mechanisms of osmosensation and systemic osmoregulation

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 519-531

  Bourque, Charles W ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAURINE; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FOOD INTAKE; GLIA CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPEROSMOLALITY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MINERAL BALANCE; NATRIURESIS; NONHUMAN; OSMORECEPTOR; OSMOREGULATION; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; SODIUM APPETITE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM; THIRST; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 45749131367     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2400     Document Type: Review

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