“…However, the results of chronic experiments such as these are obviously not directly comparable with those of the present investigation in which the period studied after haemorrhage was of relatively short duration. The mean prehaemorrhage plasma vasopressin concentration in the Long Evans rats was relatively high, presumably because of anaesthesia and the stress of surgery (Bonjour & Malvin, 1970 (Valtin, Sawyer & Sokol, 1965;Jones & Lee, 1967;Lee & Williams, 1972), and since oxytocin has measurable antidiuretic activity if released in sufficient quantity (Bisset & Lewis, 1962), the present finding supports the view that haemorrhage stimulates the independent release of vasopressin (Chaudhury & Walker, 1958;Ginsburg & Smith, 1959;Beleslin et al 1967;Schrier, Verroust, Jones, Fabian, Lee & de Wardener, 1968).…”