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Although several reports suggest that pharmacologic amounts of glucagon may promote natriuresis, the influence of a physiological or even pathophysiological increase in circulating glucagon levels on kidney function has never been convincingly demonstrated. The present study was therefore undertaken to determine whether a moderate increase in plasma glucagon concentration of blood perfusing the kidney...