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  • Title: Studies of cerebral osmoreceptors in anesthetized dogs: the effect of intravenous and intracarotid infusion of hyper-osmolar sodium chloride solutions during sustained water diuresis.
    Author: Bie P.
    Journal: Acta Physiol Scand; 1976 Mar; 96(3):306-18. PubMed ID: 1274613.
    Abstract:
    The function of the suggested hypothalamic osmoreceptors was investigated in dogs during light chloralose anesthesia. The dogs were subjected to an i.v. load of 40 ml/kg b.w.t. of a hypo-osmolar solution of sodium chloride and glucose. This degree of hydration was kept constantly by a specially constructed servo system based on the weight of the animal. During water diuresis the renal free water clearance remained essentially constant for several hours (mean about 0.2 ml/kg b.w.t. min). Renal sodium excretion was low (mean 0.82 mumol/kg b.w.t. min) and decreased continuously throughout the experimental period. I.v. infusion of hyperosmolar sodium chloride solution (1.33 mmol/kg b.w.t. in 30 min) was followed by prolonged parallel increases in free water clearance and sodium excretion, without any detectable change in the excretion of osmoles and potassium. The renal response to bilateral infusion of hyper-osmolar NaCl (1.33 mmol/kg b.w.t. in 30 min) into the common carotid arteries was identical to the response to i.v. infusion. The estimated increase in the osmolality of the carotid blood was 2.2%. In seven out of eight experiments intracarotid infusion of NaCl (1.33 mmol/kg b.w.t. in 8 min) did not elicit any reduction in free water clearance. On the contrary, an increase was found similar to that obtained after i.v. infusion. The estimated increase in the osmolality of the carotid blood was 8.4%. The present results question the validity of the currently held view that hypothalamic osmoreceptors play an important role in the control of the osmolality of plasma.
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