Effects of altered dietary sodium intake on hormonal profiles in salt-sensitive hypertensive rats

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Abstract
Blood pressure and selected putatively influential hormones were measured in Brattleboro rats which were without diabetes insipidus and which were subjected to various manipulations in dietary sodium intake. Rats fed a control diet from weaning to 16 weeks of age showed a slow increase in blood pressure whereas rats fed a sodium-enriched diet for the same period exhibited sustained hypertension (115±3 versus 169±5 (s.e.m.) mmHg). In animals fed a sodium-enriched diet plasma concentrations of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) were significantly increased from 55±8 to 108±5 fmol/l. Rats fed the control diet from weaning (group A) and subsequently maintained on that diet or changed to a sodium-enriched diet or sodium-deficient diet showed no differences in their blood pressure. Plasma hormone concentrations were similar in these groups, with the exception of aldosterone suppression in rats switched from control to a sodium-enriched diet (0·26±0·04 versus 0·08±0·03 nmol/l; P PP< 0·001), aldosterone (0·04±0·01 to 0·23±0·07 nmol/l; P P Journal of Endocrinology (1990) 127, 243–248