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Exposure of the euryhaline teleost, Fundulus kansae, to 0.40 M saline for 14 days caused marked degenerative changes in the renal, interrenal, and leucohemopoietic elements of the head-kidney.
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ACTH injections largely reversed the effect of exposure to saline.
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Adaptation to sea-water caused a significant drop in the levels of circulating leucocytes. Since these animals showed a leucocytosis following cold-shock, it is concluded that the pituitary-interrenal axis remains intact but somewhat less active in sea-water than in fresh-water.
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Fleming, W.R., Ball, J.N. & Conaway, C.H. The effects of a saline environment and ACTH on the interrenal of Fundulus kansae . Z. vergl. Physiologie 74, 121–126 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339926
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