"Antidotal thirst": a response to intoxication.
Albino rats increased their intake of water soon after they were given a load of 0.12 molar lithium chloride in the stomach. Alterations in blood volume and tonicity could not account for the magnitude of the thirst observed, which served to facilitate the renal excretion of the toxic lithium ions.
D000818:Animals; D001810:Blood Volume; D004327:Drinking Behavior / Q000187:drug effects*; D006400:Hematocrit; D006706:Homeostasis; D008094:Lithium / Q000097:blood / Q000633:toxicity* / Q000652:urine; D051381:Rats; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D013894:Thirst / Q000187:drug effects*; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance
D008094:Lithium