Parathyroid function in the box turtle, Terrapene carolina triunguis
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"A fundamental component of the concept of homeostasis is that the functional integrity of a cell is dependent upon maintaining the relative constancy of its internal environment. Since all cell membranes are more or less permeable to a variety of organic and inorganic constituents, the cells are, not surprisingly, closely dependent upon the properties of the solution which surrounds them. Two of these properties, the relative and the absolute concentration of ions in solution, are of special significance in mineral metabolism. Seen from the perspective of evolution, extracellular mineral regulation was achieved by a modification and amplification of more primitive processes involved in intracellular homeostasis."--Introduction.
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M.A.