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The most important hormones involved in avian osmoregulation besides AVT, which is treated fully in Sect. 5.2, are those of the adrenal cortex. In this chapter a brief survey on the pituitary-adrenal axis of birds will be presented followed by a short description of the role of its hormones in regulation of renal function. Effects on cloaca and salt gland are treated in Chaps. 6 and 7. A comprehensive survey of the function of adrenocortical hormones has been published by Holmes and Phillips (1976).
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Skadhauge, E. (1981). A Brief Survey of Hormones and Osmoregulation. In: Osmoregulation in Birds. Zoophysiology, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81585-0_9
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