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Disturbed Homeostasis in Sodium-Restricted Mice Heterozygous and Homozygous for Aldosterone Synthase Gene Disruption
30 Oct 2006
Abstract excerpt
We have determined that differences in expression of aldosterone synthase (AS) affect responses to a low-salt diet. In AS-null mice (AS(-/-)), but not in wild-type, low salt significantly decreased plasma sodium and increased potassium. The increased urine volume (1.5xwild-type) and decreased urine osmolality (0.7xwild-type), present in AS(-/-) mice on normal salt, became more severe (2.3xwild-type and...
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