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Following a brief period of acute hydration in dehydrated rats, a decrease in a prostaglandin-dehydrogenase activity was observed in the loop of Henle and the collecting tubule. Salt-depletion and salt-repletion were of no influence on the enzyme activity.
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This work was supported by a grant from the Danish State Research Foundation.
The authors wish to thank Dr. John E. Pike of the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, for supplying the Prostaglandins used in this study.
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Nissen, H.M., Andersen, H. On the activity of a prostaglandin-dehydrogenase system in the kidney. Histochemie 17, 241–247 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309868
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