Water balance and renal function in two species of African lungfish Protopterus dolloi and Protopterus annectens

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-157

  Patel, Monika ^a   Iftikar, Fathima I ^b   Smith, Richard W ^b   Ip, Yuen K ^c   Wood, Chris M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Clearance ratio; Diffusive permeability; Feeding; Osmotic permeability; Terrestrialization

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLUID BALANCE; FRESHWATER FISH; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LAND BIOME; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI; TELEOST; URINARY EXCRETION; WATER CONTENT; WATER PERMEABILITY;

PROTOPTERIDAE; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 57649087638     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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