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Information has accumulated in recent years on the extent to which pituitary and adrenal hormones modulate the activity of those organs primarily responsible for controlling rates of water and electrolyte excretion in reptiles: the kidneys, cloacal-colon complex and the cephalic salt-secreting glands. The topic has been reviewed periodically over the years (Bradshaw 1972, 1975, 1986a; Dantzler and Holmes 1974; Minnich 1979; Dantzler and Braun 1980; Braun and Dantzler 1987; Dantzler 1989a,b) but the data are still very fragmentary and garnered from only a very small number of species.
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Bradshaw, S.D. (1997). Activity and Hormonal Control of Excretory Organs. In: Homeostasis in Desert Reptiles. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60355-6_4
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