SOME ASPECTS OF ZONATION AND FUNCTION OF THE ADRENAL CORTEX

in Journal of Endocrinology
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I. CHESTER JONES
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MARGARET H. SPALDING
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SUMMARY

Male adult rats whose adrenals were enucleated and allowed to regenerate showed in one group normal competence to handle administered water loads, and in another a slow diuresis after this functional test. In the latter case the predisposing factor is cortical insufficiency and not the absence of the medulla. Even those animals with regenerated enucleated adrenals, which gave a normal response to water loads, nevertheless still showed some differences from normal in regard to sodium and potassium metabolism. The histology of the adrenals in the different groups is described.

 

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