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Brain mechanisms and drinking: the role of lamina terminalis-associated systems in extracellular thirst

A K Johnson, J T Cunningham

    Kidney International. Supplement
    |August 1, 1987
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    AV3V regionExtracellular thirstANG II signalingVascular receptors

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