AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 262, Issue 6 993-R999, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of water immersion on sympathoadrenal and dopa-dopamine systems in humans

E. Grossman, D. S. Goldstein, A. Hoffman, I. R. Wacks and M. Epstein
Hypertension-Endocrine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Water immersion to the neck increases central blood volume and evokes a marked diuresis and natriuresis. The present study examined simultaneously effects of water immersion on activities of three endogenous systems thought to participate in sodium homeostasis: the sympathetic nervous system, the atrial natriuretic peptide system, and the renal dopa-dopamine system. Hourly urine collections and antecubital venous blood samples were obtained from 10 normal subjects before, during, and after sitting in a water-immersion tank for 3 h; four control subjects were studied while seated without immersion. Urine volume was increased by more than threefold after 1 h of immersion (from 1.2 +/- 0.2 ml/min at baseline to 5.9 +/- 0.7 ml/min, P less than 0.001) and peaked during the second hour. Urinary sodium excretion increased by more than twofold (from 103 +/- 17 mu eq/min at baseline to 196 +/- 36 mu eq/min at 1 h, P less than 0.001) and peaked during the third hour. Plasma levels and urinary excretion of norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine were suppressed consistently during immersion (P less than 0.05). There was a marked, prompt, and sustained increase in plasma levels of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic factor (irANF) from 6.9 +/- 1.9 pg/ml baseline to 17.3 +/- 4.3 pg/ml at 1 h (P less than 0.001). Urinary excretion of dopa, dopamine, and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglycol, a neuronal metabolite of NE, changed in a triphasic pattern, with decreased excretion during the first hour of immersion (P less than 0.01), small but consistent increases during the next 2 h, and decreased excretion, to below baseline, during recovery (P less than 0.01 for dopa and dopamine).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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