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Physiology of the Kidney and of Water Balance

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In warm-blooded animals water makes up about 60 percent of the body weight and exists as a solution of organic and mineral substances. This water is in constant exchange with the environment as a result of periodic uptake from the gut and continual loss through the skin, respiratory passages, and kidney. Within the body the water is distributed in several more or less discrete compartments whose contents are called the “body fluids.” The anatomical boundaries separating these compartments and the differences in the solutes present in each are of fundamental biological significance.

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  1. Institut für Physiologie, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

    Peter Deetjen

  2. Faculty of Health Sciences School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

    John W. Boylan

  3. Physiologisches Institut, Universität München, Pettenkoferstrasse 12, D-8000, München 15, West Germany

    Kurt Kramer

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Deetjen, P., Boylan, J.W., Kramer, K. (1975). Salt and Water Balance. In: Physiology of the Kidney and of Water Balance. Springer Study Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9375-7_2

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