In order to determine whether or not antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is essential to the inhibition of an acute water diuresis in adrenal insufficiency, the response to oral water loads was tested in rats with hereditary hypothalamic diabetes insipidus (DI) which lack ADH. It was found that 60 min after water loads of 3 or 5% of body weight urine flow was significantly lower and urine osmolality significantly higher in adrenalectomized DI rats than in the same DI rats before removal of their adrenal glands.
Howard H. Green, Avery R. Harrington, Heinz Valtin
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