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White Leghorn laying hens were maintained on commercial poultry food (medium-Na⁺ diet) and fresh water. High-Na⁺ diet birds received, in addition, 10 ml 9% (w/v) NaCl/kg by stomach load for 2 days before perfusion experiments. The lumen of the coprodeum and colon of anaesthetized birds was perfused with a hyperosmotic solution resembling ureteral urine. Transmural solute and water fluxes and potential difference (p.d.) values were measured for 2·5 h before and for 8 h after i.v. injection of aldosterone (120 µg/kg). After administration of aldosterone, the lag, increasing and stabilized plateau phases were identified for Na⁺, K⁺ and Cl^– fluxes (which together formed an electroneutral ion-exchange system); plateau flux values were significantly greater than preinjection values and were comparable to values for birds maintained on low-Na⁺ diets in parallel experiments. Ammonium, phosphate and water fluxes were unresponsive to aldosterone and p.d. values showed a transient increase in medium-Na⁺ diet birds only. In parallel experiments on birds on low sodium diets the ammonium flux and p.d. increased but the osmotic flow and phosphate transfer did not respond. Therefore acute injection of aldosterone reproduced some but not all of the responses to dietary Na⁺ restriction in fowls.

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