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Encyclopedia: Osmoregulation
Osmoregulation is the active regulation of the osmotic pressure of bodily fluids to maintain the homeostasis of the body's water content; that is it keeps the body's fluids from becoming too dilute or...
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Definition and other additional information on Osmoregulation from Biology-Online.org dictionary.
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Osmoregulation is the control of the levels of water and mineral salts in the blood. It is a homeostatic mechanism. There are three important homeostatic mechanisms: osmoregulation, thermoregulation and regulation of blood sugar levels.
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Osmoregulation is the regulation of water and ion concentrations in the body. Keeping this regulation precise is critical in maintaining life in a cell.
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This article appeared in the 1987 issue Vol 1. No.3 of ATOLL Osmoregulation: Please give me a drink! Their body fluids are, again, 1/3 of that of sea water but this time they are in sea water so their body fluids are hypoosmotic to their environment. As a result they will tend to lose water by osmosis to the...
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Osmoregulation; Endocrine system; Thermal regulation. Definitions. Homeostasis = maintaining steady state equilibrium in the internal environment of an...
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Teleost fish osmoregulation: what have we learned since August Krogh, Homer Smith, and Ancel Keys; Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol, August 1, 2008; 295(2): R704 - R713. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]; P. Boily, B. B. Rees, and L. A. C. Williamson; Vertebrate osmoregulation: a student laboratory...
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Osmoregulation in Plants: Implications for Agriculture1 Here, I highlight some of the unique characteristics of plant osmoregulation and discuss how advances in our understanding of these processes will lead to the development of crop plants with improved drought and salinity tolerance.
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