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. 1972 Nov;51(11):2928–2940. doi: 10.1172/JCI107117

The effect of chronic hypotonic volume expansion on the renal regulation of acid-base equilibrium

David C Lowance 1, Howard B Garfinkel 1, William D Mattern 1, William B Schwartz 1
PMCID: PMC292443  PMID: 5080418

Abstract

Balance studies have been carried out to evaluate the influence of vasopressin-induced volume expansion on acid-base equilibrium in normal dogs and in dogs with steady-state metabolic acidosis induced by the administration of 5-7 mmoles/kg per day of hydrochloric acid.

Hypotonic expansion in dogs with metabolic acidosis (mean plasma bicarbonate concentration 14 mEq/liter) produced a marked increase in renal acid excretion that restored plasma bicarbonate concentration to normal (20-21 mEq/liter) despite continued ingestion of acid. When water was restricted during the vasopressin period, and fluid retention thus prevented, no increase in acid excretion or plasma bicarbonate concentration occurred. From these findings we conclude that hypotonic expansion is a potent stimulus to renal hydrogen ion secretion and greatly facilitates the renal removal of an acid load.

Normal dogs subjected to expansion demonstrated no change in net acid excretion or in plasma bicarbonate concentration even in the face of a marked diuresis of sodium and chloride and a reduction in plasma sodium concentration to approximately 110 mEq/liter. The animals did, however, regularly lose potassium, a finding that clearly indicates an acceleration of distal sodiumcation exchange. On the basis of these observations, and the findings in the expanded acidotic dogs, we suggest that in the expanded normal dogs acceleration of sodium-hydrogen exchange was responsible for preventing a bicarbonate diuresis and for stabilizing plasma bicarbonate concentration.

These studies clearly demonstrate that chronic hypotonic expansion exerts a major influence on the renal regulation of acid-base equilibrium. The exact nature of the mechanism responsible for the increase in sodium-hydrogen exchange during hypotonic expansion remains to be determined.

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