“…It is known that the plasma concentration of aldosterone increases in dia¬ betic ketoacidosis (Christlieb, Assai, Katsilambros et al 1975;Scott, Espiner, Donald & Livesey, 1978;Quigley, Sullivan, Gonggrijp et al 1982). In addition, metabolic acidosis induced by infusions of ammonium chloride (Perez, Oster, Vaamonde & Katz, 1977;Schambelan & Sebastian, 1977;Perez, Oster, Katz & Vaamonde, 1979), hydrochloric acid (Perez et al 1979) or lactic acid (Perez, Kern, Oster & Vaamonde, 1980) stimulates aldosterone secretion, whereas meta¬ bolic alkalosis induced by infusion of sodium bicar¬ bonate (Julian, Galla, Guthrie & Kotchen, 1982) or by selective depletion of hydrochloric acid (Kassirer, Appleton, Chazan & Schwartz, 1967) suppresses aldo¬ sterone secretion.…”