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THE role of the amphibian urinary bladder in osmoregulation is well documented1,2. In fish, however, maintenance of water and ion balance has been attributed almost entirely to the gill, kidney and intestine. Modification of ionic composition has been reported in the bladder urine of Lophius americanus3, Platichthys flesus4 and Opsanus tau5, and there has been one report of a transient effect of arginine vasotocin on water reabsorption from the bladder of Tilapia mossambica6; there has, however, been no direct Physiological evidence of osmoregulatory activity of the teleost urinary bladder.
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HIRANO, T., JOHNSON, D. & BERN, H. Control of Water Movement in Flounder Urinary Bladder by Prolactin. Nature 230, 469–471 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230469a0
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