The effect of water diuresis on electrolyte excretion in unanaesthetized dogs.
1. The relation between water loading and electrolyte excretion in dogs fed on a meat diet proved impossible to evaluate owing to the large variability in electrolyte excretion rates in control experiments.2. In animals fed a synthetic diet of constant and known composition the administration of a water load of 2.5% of body weight caused significant increases in the rate of excretion of sodium (P < 0.01) and potassium (P < 0.05). The chloride excretion rate also increased in the one animal tested.3. The significance of these results is discussed.
D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet; D004231:Diuresis / Q000502:physiology*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D009318:Natriuresis; D011188:Potassium / Q000652:urine*; D014869:Water Intoxication / Q000652:urine*; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance
D011188:Potassium