..., and muscle contractions of the crop, hindgut and dorsal vessel, which facilitate mixing of the blood-meal, mixing of the haemolymph,as well as the expulsion of waste. One of the neurohormones that might play a role in this rapid diuresis belongs to the calcitonin-like diuretic hormone(DH 31 ) family...

.... These include parathyroid hormone, calcitonin, vitamin D and prolactin. There are several sites where loss of calcium to the environment could occur. In addition to diffusion of calcium across the skin or the gills, urinary loss of calcium ions is potentially great. Renal tubular transport of calcium...

...N. A. M. Wales ABSTRACT When freshwater eels were given either 5 or 15 i.u. calcitonin kg −1 body weight, there was an increase in dorsal aortic blood pressure as well as a rise in urine volume, glomerular filtration rate and electrolyte excretion rate, 1 h after injection. None of these changes...