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  • Title: Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) stimulates aldosterone secretion by rat adrenal glands in vivo.
    Author: Nussdorfer GG, Mazzocchi G.
    Journal: J Steroid Biochem; 1987 Feb; 26(2):203-5. PubMed ID: 3031372.
    Abstract:
    VIP acutely enhanced the plasma concentration of aldosterone (but not that of corticosterone) both in normal rats, and in rats chronically treated with dexamethasone and ACTH or captopril and angiotensin II. VIP increased aldosterone blood concentration in chronically captopril-treated animals, but not in rats in which ACTH secretion was inhibited by dexamethasone. These findings suggest that VIP is specifically involved in the stimulation of the secretory activity of rat zona glomerulosa, and that this action of VIP requires a normal level of circulating ACTH.
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