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O Aziz

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PubMed1978

[A NH(+4)-selective-enzymatic flow-through system. A method for the continuous enzymatic, electrochemical determination of urea, II (author's transl)].

A flow-through system for the measurement of urea concentrations is described, using soluble urease and consecutive determination of liberated ammonium ions by a selective disc-electrode. The active component of the electrode membrane was the carrier-antibiotic nonactin which was incorporated in a polyvinylchloride matrix.

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PubMed1976

Elimination of vasopressin by the normal and the damaged liver. Experiments on unanaesthetized normal and thiocetamide treated rats with a note on the influence of ethanol.

Arginine vasopressin was infused into the V. portae and into the V. cava of unanesthetized rats in water diuresis. The differential antidiuretic response of the same animal to these infusions was used to calculate extraction fraction of ADH by the liver. In the normal rat no extraction was detected. The liver of rats hydrated with 5% ethanol extracted 10% and that of rats treated with thioacetamide extracted 60% of the ADH infused into the portal vein. It is postulated that disturbances of liver cell function by narcotics and substances causing liver damage may liberate ADH-destroying ferments into the blood.

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PubMed1976

[Investigations in streaming blood of the alert animal and man. II. Investigations on the mechanism of water resorption from the gut into the portal vein blood in the rat (author's transl)].

Arteriovenous differences (AVD) of electrolyte concentration in the gut are followed by continuous conductometry of ultrafiltrates of portal venous and aortic blood. Intraduodenal application of tap water amounting to 0.5, 1,0 or 2,0% body weight lead to extremely variable reactions both in time course and dimension of AVD. Whereas large and fast changes can be described by a single exponential term, small and slow changes show saturation effects. Evidence is presented, that these differences correspond to permeability changes, both for water in the direction: lumen to blood and for electrolytes in the direction: blood to lumen. Thirst has an enhancing effect on AVD. A dual resorptive pathway is proposed to fit the data.

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PubMed1975

A comparison of sodium excretion in response to infusion of isotonic saline into the vena porta and vena cava of conscious rats.

1. Indwelling non-occlusive catheters were placed in the vena porta and inferior vena cava of female rats several days before experimentation. Isotonic saline or isosmotic glucose (2% of body wt.) was infused into one vein followed one to several days later with an identical infusion into the other vein of each conscious animal. 2. Significantly higher urine flow and sodium excretion resulted from infusion of isotonic saline (0.5 ml/min) into the vena porta than into the vena cava. Modest prehydration or section of the hepatic branch of the right vagus did not affect the differential sodium response. Changes in endogenous creatinine clearance and potassium excretion were not significantly different for the two routes. Mean values for net peak sodium excretion and contemporaneous urine flow, urinary sodium concentration, and fractional sodium excretion were significantly higher for the portal than for the caval infusion while differences in glomerular filtration rate and filtered sodium load were insignificant. No significant difference in sodium excretion resulted from infusion of isosmotic glucose by the two routes. 3. Compared to the response promoted by the isotonic saline load infused at 0.5 ml/min, the differential response in sodium excretion was prolonged when the same load was infused at 0.375 ml/min. Sodium excretion was not significantly different for the two routes when the same isotonic saline load was infused at 0.75 ml/min. 4. These experiments provide evidence for participation of the liver in the control of sodium excretion and suggest release of a hepatic humoral factor which may be controlled by the duration of exposure of the hepatic circulation to an adequate load of isotonic saline.

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