Venous blood samples were collected from 129 apparently healthy, rehabilitated juvenile black-bellied whistling ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis) immediately before release from rehabilitation. Blood gas ...

RENAL concentrating ability in response to an antidiuretic stimulus presumably is limited by a maximum urine osmotic pressure or osmotic urine-plasma gradient or ratio. Hence, the determination of ...

Studies involving body fluid homeostasis were carried out in adult Long-Evans rats whose mothers received liquid diets containing 35% of the calories derived from ethanol between the 6th and the 20th ...

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January/February 2008), pp. 43-53 (11 pages) Abstract It is well established that forming a cocoon, for ...

The therapeutic goals for treatment of hyperglycemic crises in diabetes consist of 1) improving circulatory volume and tissue perfusion, 2) decreasing serum glucose and plasma osmolality toward normal ...

GLOMERULAR filtration rate and renal plasma flow may be sharply reduced in patients with advanced cirrhosis. 1–4 Reduction of glomerular filtration and deficient urine volume in these patients is ...