Animals instinctively find and consume water when feeling thirsty in order to restore body fluid osmolality and plasma volume to their set points. The feeling of thirst is strongly influenced by the ...

1 Nursing School of Soochow University, Su Zhou, People's Republic of China. 2 Neurosurgery Department of First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, No. 188 Shizi Street, Gusu District, Su Zhou, ...

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 ...

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