Water Balance: Abstaining from Obtaining While Retaining
Animals tightly regulate blood volume and solute concentrations. Water balance is usually achieved by a combination of managing intake and excretion but sometimes both drinking and urination are inconvenient. Hibernators have perfected internal mechanisms to maintain water balance without either. An...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Current biology 2019-10, Vol.29 (19), p.R925-R927 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Animals tightly regulate blood volume and solute concentrations. Water balance is usually achieved by a combination of managing intake and excretion but sometimes both drinking and urination are inconvenient. Hibernators have perfected internal mechanisms to maintain water balance without either.
Animals tightly regulate blood volume and solute concentrations. Water balance is usually achieved by a combination of managing intake and excretion but sometimes both drinking and urination are inconvenient. Hibernators have perfected internal mechanisms to maintain water balance without either. |
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ISSN: | 0960-9822 1879-0445 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.038 |