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Plasma vasopressin, arterial blood gas tensions, pH, arterial blood pressure, heart rate and respiration were monitored in conscious rats breathing room air or exposed to varying degrees of hypoxia. A similar series of observations was made in a group of anaesthetized rats and in rats treated with - and β-adrenergic and dopaminergic blocking agents. The effect of two opioid antagonists on the vasopressin response was also noted. Hypoxia produced an increase in circulating vasopressin concentrations in both conscious and anaesthetized rats. In the conscious animals the increase reached statistical significance when the animals were exposed to 12% oxygen in nitrogen, which produced a fall in arterial PaO₂ of 44·7 ± 5·0%. Guanethidine, phentolamine and propranolol all produced a significant fall in the basal concentrations of vasopressin, while guanethidine, phenoxybenzamine and propranolol blocked the increase seen on breathing 12% oxygen in nitrogen. Naloxone and levallorphan also reduced the vasopressin response to hypoxia. Thus it appears that aminergic pathways play a role in the maintenance of circulating concentrations of vasopressin and in the response to hypoxia. Endogenous opioids also appear to be involved in the hypoxic response.

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