PMID: 9172374Jun 1, 1997Paper

Urea and amphibian water economy

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Physiology
C B Jørgensen

Abstract

Accumulation of urea in the body fluids enables some amphibians to tolerate high ambient salinities (Bufo viridis, Xenopus laevis, Rana cancrivora, Ambystoma tigrinum, Batrachoseps spp.) or to estivate in soil with low water potentials (Scaphiopus spp.). These species are assumed not only to accumulate urea produced in the normal metabolism, but to synthesize urea in response to water shortage. Re-examination of the data did not support the view of an osmoregulatory urea synthesis. Increased urea synthesis on exposure to high salinities in X. laevis, R. cancrivora and Batrachoseps spp. seemed to reflect reactions to an adverse environment. It is suggested that in amphibians, solute concentration in the plasma and rate of excretion of urea are coordinated so that at a certain plasma concentration, urea is excreted at the same rate at which it is produced. The higher the level of urea in the body fluids at balance between production and excretion, the higher the tolerance of the species of low external water potentials. The mechanisms that integrate the relationship between plasma solute concentration and handling of urea by the kidneys are not known.

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