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J Appl Physiol 66: 1744-1748, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 66, Issue 4 1744-1748, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Lithium clearance in water immersion-induced natriuresis in humans

T. J. Rabelink, H. A. Koomans, W. H. Boer, J. van Rijn and E. J. Dorhout Mees
Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Lithium clearance (CLi) has been advanced as a measure of sodium delivery from the proximal tubules. Because information on the intrarenal effects of water immersion is only limited, and available data are conflicting with respect to the effects on the proximal tubule, we examined the effects of 3 h of water immersion on renal functional parameters, including CLi, in eight healthy subjects. Studies were carried out during maximal water diuresis. Water immersion resulted in a significant increase in sodium excretion, from preimmersion values of 74.0 +/- 9.6 to 155.4 +/- 12.0 mumol/min at the third immersion hour (P less than 0.01). This natriuresis was accompanied by an increase in CLi from 26.3 +/- 1.9 (preimmersion) to 37.0 +/- 3.1 ml/min (P less than 0.01). Fractional lithium reabsorption (FRLi) decreased from 76.4 +/- 1.0 to 69.6 +/- 1.3% (P less than 0.01). None of these changes was found in eight healthy subjects undergoing a time-control study without water immersion. The large fall in FRLi found during immersion is compatible with a major resetting of the proximal glomerulotubular balance. In this regard the renal response to water immersion resembles saline expansion rather than mere intravascular expansion. The lithium data suggested a large rise in distal delivery accompanied by an almost as large rise in distal reabsorption. The free water clearance data were in agreement with this interpretation. However, no changes were found in fractional excretion of phosphate and uric acid. Therefore such a major resetting of proximal glomerulotubular balance can be doubted.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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