Population
7 cardiac-denervated dogs
Comparison
Water immersion (WI) vs Previous group of intact dogs
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Implicates cardiopulmonary mechanoreceptors in canine natriuresis; leaves open translation to human volume disorders.
The attenuated neural and excretory responses to water immersion in cardiac-denervated dogs suggest that cardiopulmonary mechanoreceptors play a key role in regulating sodium excretion.
Miki et al. (2002) studied this question.
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