INTERRELATIONSHIP OF THE EFFECTS OF ALDOSTERONE AND THYROID HORMONES ON SODIUM TRANSPORT AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF RAT COLON

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C. J. EDMONDS
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B. D. THOMPSON
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SUMMARY

Transmucosal electrical potential difference (p.d.), short-circuit current, electrical resistance and Na+ influx rate of the descending colon were similar in euthyroid and hypothyroid rats, the latter having been treated earlier with an ablation dose of 131I. However, in contrast to the considerable p.d. increase found in normal rats, little change of p.d. was found in hypothyroid rats when they were Na+ depleted or given an intravenous aldosterone infusion. A single small dose of tri-iodothyronine (T3) (1 μg/100g body weight) or a larger dose of thyroxine given to hypothyroid rats 10–16 h before aldosterone, restored the p.d. response to normal, although these doses did not influence the animal's oxygen consumption. Fasting for 3 days or giving actinomycin D (8 μg/100 g body weight) abolished the effect of T3 but this did not influence the action of aldosterone in euthyroid animals.

 

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