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Oxford Handbook of Physiology Endocrine System Section 7 2000 Edition by Volume editor John C.S. Fray
This volume takes an integrative approach to the physiologic process of water and electrolyte balance. It is devided into three parts: sodium and potassium balance, hormones regulating electrolyte balance, and endocrine regulation of calcium and phosphate balance. Renin, angiotensinogen, angiotensin converting enzymes, angiotensins, aldosterone, kallikrein-kinin, natriuretic hormones, antidiuretic hormone, parathyroid hormone and polyhormones, parathuroid hormone-related peptide and vitamin D are discurssed in critical and comprehensive detail.