Antunes-Rodrigues, José, Margaret de Castro, Lucila LK Elias, Marcelo M. Valença, and
Samuel M. McCann. Neuroendocrine Control of Body Fluid Metabolism. Physiol Rev 84: 169 …

The authors hypothesize that the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),
despite their apparent nonrationality, have what might be termed an epistemic origin-that is …

The hypothalamus is one of the most complex brain structures involved in homeostatic
regulation. Defining cell composition and identifying cell-type-specific transcriptional …

The detection of osmotic stimuli is essential for all organisms, yet few osmoreceptive
proteins are known, none of them in vertebrates. By employing a candidate-gene approach …

Osmotic homeostasis is one of the most aggressively defended physiological parameters in
vertebrates. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying osmotic regulation are poorly …

All animals detect osmotic and mechanical stimuli, but the molecular basis for these
responses is incompletely understood. The vertebrate transient receptor potential channel …

The brain's three sensory circumventricular organs, the subfornical organ, organum
vasculosum of the lamina terminalis and the area postrema lack a blood brain barrier and …

Metal complexation is a key mediator or modifier of enzyme structure and function. In
addition to divalent and polyvalent metals, group IA metals Na+ and K+ play important and …

Neural circuits for appetites are regulated by both homeostatic perturbations and ingestive
behaviour. However, the circuit organization that integrates these internal and external …

Sodium appetite, the behavioural drive to ingest salt, is stimulated by prolonged
physiological sodium deficiency in many animal species. The same neural mechanisms that …