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  • Title: Renin, cortisol and plasma volume in marine teleost fishes adapted to dilute media.
    Author: Nishimura H, Sawyer WH, Nigrelli RF.
    Journal: J Endocrinol; 1976 Jul; 70(1):47-59. PubMed ID: 932611.
    Abstract:
    The renin-angiotensin system has been found in teleost fishes from both marine and fresh-water environments. In an attempt to define whether activity of the renin-angiotensin system is related to sodium balance in fishes, we transferred two euryhaline teleosts from seawater to hypo-osmotic media. Plasma renin activity decreased in American eels, Anguilla rostrata, after they were transferred from seawater to fresh water, and it did not change in the aglomerular toadfish, Opsanus tau, after transfer from 50% seawater to 5% seawater. Plasma sodium concentrations decreased significantly in toadfish in 5% seawater and in one group of eels in fresh water. Plasma levels of cortisol, a major mineralocorticoid in teleosts, and plasma volume, measured in eels, remained relatively constant. There are no clear correlations between plasma renin levels and those of plasma sodium or plasma cortisol. These results provide no evidence that the need of these fishes to conserve sodium when in hypo-osmotic media stimulates the renin-angiotensin system.
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