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In conscious Pekin ducks adapted to hypertonic saline (1.9%) as drinking water, steady state secretion of the salt glands was established by continuous intravenous salt loading and the effects of hypothalamic thermal stimulation on salt gland activity and on the plasma concentrations of arginine vasotocin (AVT) and angiotensin II (AII) were observed. Hypothalamic cooling depressed salt gland secretion and the plasma level of AVT. Hypothalamic warming caused transient activation and subsequent inhibition of salt gland secretion without consistent changes of the plasma levels of AVT and AII. Whole body cooling by heat extraction with a colonic thermode produced moderate inhibition of salt gland activity, without changes in plasma AVT and AII, which may be explained by peripheral vasoconstriction. The results are consistent with the view that hypothalamic osmoregulation is under an influence of local temperature by combined osmo/thermo-responsiveness of hypothalamic neurons and temperature dependence of signal transmission in hypothalamic neural integration of osmoregulation.
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Hori, T., Simon-Oppermann, C., Gray, D.A. et al. Thermally induced changes in neural and hormonal control of osmoregulation in a bird with salt glands (Anas platyrhynchos). Pflugers Arch. 407, 414–420 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00652627
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