..., 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. It would be a mistake to conclude that, once protein binding is accounted for, the description of amphibian blood calcium is complete. Plasma [Ca 2+ ] fluctuates seasonally and during development. There are seasonal alterations...

...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...