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Science 12 July 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3837, pp. 167 - 169
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3837.167
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Abnormal Water Balance in a Mutant Strain of Chickens

William A. Dunson 1 and Edward G. Buss 1

1 Departments of Biology and Poultry Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802

Polydipsia and polyuria are pronounced in chickens of a selected strain and this diabetes insipidus is inherited. The kidneys of such birds are capable of an antidiuretic response when lysine vasopressin or arginine vasotocin is injected. Osmotic pressure and sodium concentration of the plasmas of normal and mutant chickens are identical. Chicks predicted to have diabetes insipidus on the basis of parental pedigree are polydipsic.


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