Table 2.

Plasma aldosterone (pg/ml) in mice kept on a standard-salt diet or a sodium-deficient diet

Diet	KO	Control
Standard diet (Ren-2−/− gene mice)	1915 ± 396 (n = 5)a	381 ± 55 (n = 8)
Sodium-deficient diet, 4 days (Ren-2−/− gene mice)	3085 ± 400 (n = 4)b	1064 ± 213 (n = 6)
Sodium-deficient diet, 15 days (Ren-2+/− gene mice)	20,984 ± 2775 (n = 7)c	1218 ± 304 (n = 7)

Data are means ± SEM.

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.