
%0 Journal Article
%A H Koch, Judith 
%A Newton Turner, Helen 
%T Studies on the Sodium-Potassium Balance in Erythrocytes of Australian merino sheep 1. Changes in concentrations in the erythrocytes of lambs from birth to 98 days
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1961/03/01
%V 14
%N 1
%P 79-86
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9610079
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9610079 
%X Estimates are given of the sodium-potassium balance in the erythrocytes of 16 Australian Merino and Merino cross lambs at ages ranging from to 98 days. The [Na+] values rose and the [K+] values fell from birth till an age of approximately 60 days, after which each variable fluctuated about a value comparable with those obtained for the dams of the same lambs, all of which were adult Merinos. Curves were fitted up to 57 days, their equations being y[Na+]=21·47 +2·63x-O·0203x' and y[K+] =99·60-2·78x+O·0221x' (x = age in days). 
