* Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia, † Department of Surgery, Austin Hospital, Studley Road, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia, and ‡ Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
(Received 19 October 1977)
Aldosterone is present in the peripheral blood of ovine foetuses from at least 60 days until term at 147 ± 5 days (Wintour, Brown, Denton, Hardy, McDougall, Oddie & Whipp, 1975). To determine the biological significance of this steroid in the foetus, infusions of aldosterone were made into foetuses bearing chronic vascular and bladder cannulae and the urinary sodium: potassium Na+: K+) ratio was measured before, during and after infusion. Silastic cannulae (0·76 mm internal diameter, 1·65 mm outer diameter) were placed 6–8 cm into the left carotid arteries and right jugular veins of seven ovine foetuses between 86 and 120 days of gestation and a
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