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It was established that section of the spinal cord brings about decreased water dluresis. The higher the level of the section the greater the development of water diuresis. This phenomenon is not connected with delay in the water absorption from the gastro-intestinal tract, or with decreased filtration in the kidney glomeruli. Disturbance of water exctetory function of the kidney following section of the spinal cord is connected with the break of the afferent routes from the osmoreceptors to the nuclei of the hypothalamic area.
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Velikanova, L.K. The effect of spinal cord transection on renal water excretion. Bull Exp Biol Med 44, 1349–1351 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00830629
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00830629