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Diabetes in rat pregnancy alters renal calcium and magnesium reabsorption and bone formation in adult offspring
We tested the hypothesis that diabetes in pregnancy can result in the in-utero reprogramming of renal calcium and magnesium handling and of bone formation in the offspring, which persists into adulthood.
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Vascular actions of neurohypophysial peptides in the flounder
Free swimming, chronically cannulated flounder have been used to study the blood pressure effects of arginine vasotocin (AVT) and isotocin. The initial fall in dorsal aortic blood pressure following AVT inject...
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Pituitary and plasma AVT content in the flounder (Platichthys flesus)
Radioimmunoassay measurement of pituitary AVT content and plasma AVT concentration indicated comparable levels in fully adapted sea water (SW) and fresh water (FW) flounders. Circulating AVT represented less t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Teleost renal function:regulation by arginine vasotocin and by angiotensins
Euryhaline teleosts are able to live in or adapt to a wide range of environmental salinities and maintain relatively constant plasma osmolality. Adaptive changes in renal function play an important part in thi...
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The steroidogenic response to angiotensin II in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri
Corticosterone, aldosterone and cortisol were found to be present in lungfish plasma. Plasma levels of these hormones were measured in lungfish following separate single intramuscular injections of three forms...
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Arginine vasotocin and fish osmoregulation
Pituitary arginine vasotocin (AVT) secretion is sensitive to the osmotic challenge associated with transfer of euryhaline teleosts between sea water (SW) and fresh water (FW). Pituitary AVT content in FW-adapt...
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The effect of variation in calcium intake on the growth of wood mice and bank voles
Calcium intake by wild rodents varies with season and habitat. This may have important ecological consequences; several studies have suggested that calcium availability may limit growth and reproduction. We st...
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Drinking behaviour in sea water and fresh water teleosts, the role of the renin-angiotensin system
Basal drinking rate and responses to administered angiotensin were examined in 12 species of fish. The responses of representative euryhaline, stenohaline marine and fresh water species to pharmacological mani...
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The effect of habitat geology on calcium intake and calcium status of wild rodents
Calcium is essential for normal physiological function, reproduction and growth in mammals but its distribution in the natural environment is heterogeneous. Spatial variation in calcium soil content is especia...
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Biological actions of atrial natriuretic factor in flatfish
Flounder adapted to seawater were chronically cannulated and received a single i.v. injection of either saline (control) or 10 µg/kg b.w. of human ANF. Compared to controls, ANF significantly reduced (p<0.001)...
