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. 1970 Sep;210(1):45–71. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1970.sp009195

Effects of 0·9% saline infusion on urinary and renal tissue composition in the hydropaenic, normal and hydrated conscious rat

J C Atherton, R Green, S Thomas
PMCID: PMC1395644  PMID: 5500804

Abstract

1. Changes in water and solute outputs of hydropaenic, normal and hydrated conscious rats were determined during intravenous infusion (0·2 ml./min) of isotonic (0·9%) saline for 4 hr; renal tissue composition was determined before, and after 1 or 2 hr, infusion.

2. In normal and hydrated rats increased excretion of water and sodium was such that urinary output matched intravenous input from about 2 hr. In hydropaenic rats, the diuretic and natriuretic response was much reduced; a retention of infused saline, equivalent to 15% body weight, occurred over 4 hr.

3. A considerable increase in urea output and clearance, and a smaller increase in potassium and ammonium outputs, occurred in all groups.

4. The corticomedullary osmolal gradients characteristic of non-diuretic rats were largely dissipated during saline infusion: by 1 hr in normal and hydrated rats, and by 2 hr in the hydropaenic group.

5. These changes were ascribable mainly to an increase in tissue water content in all segments, particularly in the hydropaenic group; and to a profound decrease in urea content in all groups.

6. Changes in tissue sodium content were smaller, and differed between segments and between the differently hydrated groups. A decrease in papillary content occurred in hydropaenic and normal groups and an increase in cortical and outer medullary content occurred in all groups.

7. After 2 hr saline infusion, incomplete papillary—urinary osmotic equilibration was evident in all groups.

8. These changes in medullary osmolality and in papillary—urinary osmotic equilibration preceded the maximal diuresis, and must contribute to the diuresis induced by saline infusion, as in water and osmotic diureses.

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