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 ...

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 ...

SINCE the original description of the syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma complicated by inappropriate antidiuresis in 1957, 2 18 cases have been reported in detail. 2–16 Because of the similarity ...

The study covered in this summary was published on Research Square as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. The researchers suggest using as a cutoff a copeptin level of >3.4 pmol/L at ...

Andréaz Dupoué, Alexis Rutschmann, Jean François Le Galliard, Donald B. Miles, Jean Clobert, Dale F. DeNardo, George A. Brusch IV and Sandrine Meylan Water conservation strategies are well documented ...

Osmolality measures a beverage’s concentration of solutes (i.e. sugars, salts and carbs) and how quickly the body absorb fluids for optimal hydration, which may help hydration brands validate their ...