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Aldosterone Responses to Angiotensin II,Adrenocorticotropin, and Potassium in Chronic Experimental Diabetes Mellitus in Rats^*

Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine 35 Shinanomachi,Shinjuku-ku, Japan

Address requests for reprints to: Takao Saruta, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi,Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

To investigate alterations in aldosterone secretion in diabetes mellitus, the effects of angiotensin II, ACTH, and potassium on aldosterone secretion were examined in conscious unrestrained streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats (60 mg/ kg, 12 weeks before study).

In chronic experimental diabetic rats where PRA, plasma aldosterone concentration, and urinary excretion of prostaglandin E₂ were significantly decreased, a significant attenuated response of aldosterone secretion was demonstrated after infusion of angiotensin II, ACTH, or potassium. Yet the plasma fluorogenic corticosteroids response to ACTH in diabetic rats was not significantly different from that in control rats. After acute potassium infusion (0.30 meq/kg min), plasma potassium levels in diabetic rats were significantly higher than in control rats, although immunoreactive insulin levels remained unchanged compared to the significant elevation in control rats.

These results suggest that defects in aldosterone synthesis exist in chronic experimental diabetic rats and that potassium homeostasis is impaired during acute potassium loading. This change in potassium homeostasis may be related to both insulin and aldosterone deficiencies. (Endocrinology 115: 2205–2209, 1984)

Footnotes

^* This study was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare "Disorders of Adrenal Hormone" Research Committee,Japan.

Received January 4, 1984.

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