ESTIMATION OF TOTAL BODY WATER IN HARBOR SEALS: HOW USEFUL IS BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS?

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Bowen, W. Don, Boness, D. J., Iverson, S. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Bia; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.1998.tb00761.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1748-7692.1998.tb00761.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1748-7692.1998.tb00761.x

A bstract We evaluated bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) as a means of rapidly and inexpensively estimating total body water (TBW) of harbor seals ( Phoca vitulina ). Deuterium oxide dilution was used to estimate TBW in 17 adult females and 16 of their pups between birth and late lactation. Iso...