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Science 7 December 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4116, pp. 1031 - 1034
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4116.1031
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Renin-Angiotensin Role in Thirst: Paradoxical Enhancement of Drinking by Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor

David Lehr 1, H. Warren Goldman 1, and Paul Casner 1

1 Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595

A competitive angiotensin converting enzyme antagonist SQ 20, 881 (SQ), was used to examine the role of the renin-angiotensin system in putative renin-dependent thirst in the albino rat. Significant enhancement of "renin-dependent" as well as renin-independent drinking was observed in the presence of peripheral SQ. Intraventricular SQ obviated this enhancement of drinking but did not affect the water intake caused by the original stimulus itself, whereas it sharply reduced drinking evoked by peripheral renin in nephrectomized rats. Prior renin depletion likewise had no influence on so-called renin-dependent thirst.


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