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Renin has been found in the outer zone of the renal cortex of every mammal investigated as well as in birds, reptiles, amphibians and some fish (Capelli, Wesson, and Aponte, 1970). Marine teleosts with glomerular or aglomerular kidneys have measurable quantities but the greatest amounts are found in the freshwater teleosts and the anadromous teleosts recovered from fresh water. No measurable renin was found in the kidney of the frog kept in dilute saline but significant amounts were found in animals living in fresh water. The level of renin activity in the submammalian vertebrate kidney, as in the mammalian kidney, appears to be inversely related to Na balance. It should, however, be pointed out that the tissue renin level is only an approximate guide to the rate of secretion of renin. Since aldosterone appears in significant quantities only in terrestrial vertebrates and hardly at all in fishes, the question of how, if at all, the phylogenetically older renin-angiotensin system functions in fluid and electrolyte homeostasis in lower vertebrates remains to be determined.
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Fitzsimons, J.T. (1975). Renin, Angiotensin and Drinking. In: Peters, G., Fitzsimons, J.T., Peters-Haefeli, L. (eds) Control Mechanisms of Drinking. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61907-6_16
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