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If an animal eats unsalted food its Na intake is low (Chapter 1) and man also loses Na in sweat. It is therefore possible for an animal living a normal life to have only a small net intake of Na balanced by a very low urinary excretion. In the experiments of O’Connor and Summerill (1979) the dogs were fed unsalted food and the mean rate of excretion of Na with the dogs at rest 16 hours after their meal was 2.2 μraol/min, range 0.5–8.5. Such low rates are necessary to the animal living on food not supplemented with NaCl.
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O’Connor, W.J. (1982). Excretion of Sodium. In: Normal Renal Function. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1484-4_8
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