Effect of High-Salt, High-Carbohydrate, Low-Protein Diet on Hypertension in the Rat

1973 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 99s-102s
Author(s):  
Hideo Ueda

1. High-salt, high-carbohydrate and low-protein diet induces remarkable elevation of blood pressure in spontaneous hypertensive rats (SHR). 2. These animals have low serum potassium, low blood urea nitrogen and high blood sugar. 3. Heart weight is increased in proportion to the elevation of blood pressure. 4. Kidney weight of rats receiving the high-salt, high-carbohydrate and low-protein diet was, by contrast, smaller than SHR receiving a normal diet. 5. The kidneys of SHR receiving a high-salt, high-protein diet were twice as heavy as the kidneys of normal rats. 6. Similar dietary modifications in Goldblatt hypertensive rats to those in SHR produced similar changes in blood pressure and heart weight.

1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (2) ◽  
pp. F302-F308 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Inman ◽  
N. T. Stowe ◽  
J. V. Nally ◽  
B. H. Brouhard ◽  
D. G. Vidt

The effect of dietary protein on renal function and on renal microvascular reactivity to angiotensin II was determined in rats fed a high-protein diet (40% protein), a low-protein diet (6% protein), or a normal diet (23% protein). Inulin clearance was higher in high-protein-fed rats (n = 7) than in rats fed a low-protein diet (n = 7), 0.88 +/- 0.14 (means +/- SE) vs. 0.54 +/- 0.07 ml.min-1.g kidney wt-1 (P < 0.05). We also used videomicroscopy to assess the effect of angiotensin II on the renal microcirculation in a hydronephrotic kidney preparation. The afferent and efferent arterioles constricted to angiotensin II and norepinephrine in both high- and low-protein-fed rats; this constriction was diminished to angiotensin II but not to norepinephrine, in rats fed a high-protein diet (-24.3 +/- 4.5, -20.2 +/- 4.2%) compared with rats fed a low-protein diet (-39 +/- 5.1, -39.1 +/- 5.7%). The vasoconstrictor responses to angiotensin II in rats fed a high-protein diet and a normal diet were significantly greater following inhibition of angiotensin II formation with captopril but not in low-protein-fed rats. The apparent high-endogenous level of angiotensin II among rats fed a high-protein diet may account for the diminished reactivity to exogenous angiotensin II. Thus alterations in intrinsic vascular reactivity to angiotensin II are not responsible for the altered hemodynamics associated with dietary protein.


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 2982-2997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenchen Xu ◽  
Mariya Markova ◽  
Nicole Seebeck ◽  
Anne Loft ◽  
Silke Hornemann ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 60-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan Chalvon-Demersay ◽  
Patrick C. Even ◽  
Daniel Tomé ◽  
Catherine Chaumontet ◽  
Julien Piedcoq ◽  
...  

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Beaton ◽  
V. Feleki ◽  
J. A. F. Stevenson

This investigation was undertaken to ascertain if daily treatment with insulin, known to increase lipogenesis, fat deposition, and food intake on a normal diet, could overcome or prevent, the hypophagia of rats fed a low-protein (5% casein) diet. Male Wistar rats on 20 or 5% casein diets were injected subcutaneously daily for 25 days with 2 units/100 g body weight of protamine zinc insulin (PZI) or saline. PZI increased the food intake and weight gain on both diets but not linear growth. It increased body fat markedly and protein slightly on the low-protein diet and body fat only on the normal diet. In a second similar experiment, in which treatment was continued for 17 days, PZI caused no change in resting oxygen consumption from that of the controls on either diet but did prevent the increase in running activity that rats on a low-protein diet show. In both experiments, although the insulin-treated rats on low-protein diet ate as many calories as the saline-treated controls on the normal diet, they gained significantly less weight. This paradox remains unexplained.The rebound increase in blood sugar following injection of PZI was relatively much faster in the low-protein animals. This was associated with a more immediate and greater food intake suggesting a "meal-eating" pattern of food intake in these animals which may have also enhanced lipogenesis.


2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Bellizzi ◽  
B.R. Di Iorio ◽  
L. De Nicola ◽  
R. Minutolo ◽  
P. Zamboli ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 569-578
Author(s):  
Michiyo Endoh ◽  
Asako Kunieda ◽  
Takashi Yoneyama ◽  
Kazuhisa Ohishi ◽  
Akira Hishida ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 607-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon C. Langley-Evans ◽  
Simon J. M. Welham ◽  
Rachel C. Sherman ◽  
Alan A. Jackson

1. In the rat, hypertension is induced by fetal exposure to maternal low-protein diets. The effect on blood pressure of undernutrition before conception and during discrete periods in early, mid or late pregnancy was assessed using an 18% casein (control) diet and a 9% casein diet to apply mild protein restriction. 2. The offspring of rats fed 9% casein developed raised blood pressure by weaning age. Feeding a low-protein diet before conception was not a prerequisite for programming of hypertension. 3. Hypertension was observed in rats exposed to low protein during the following gestational periods: days 0–7, days 8–14 and days 15–22. Blood pressure increases elicited by these discrete periods of undernutrition were lower than those induced by feeding a low-protein diet throughout pregnancy. The effect in early gestation was significant only in male animals. Post-natal growth of male rats exposed to low-protein diets was accelerated, but kidneys were small in relation to body weight. 4. Biochemical indices of glucocorticoid action in liver, hippocampus, hypothalamus and lung were elevated in rats exposed to low-protein diets in utero. The apparent hypersensitivity to glucocorticoids was primarily associated with undernutrition in mid to late gestation. 5. Plasma renin activity was elevated in rats exposed to 9% casein over days 15–22 of gestation. Animals undernourished over days 0–7 and 8–14 produced pups with lower plasma angiotensin II concentrations at weaning. 6. Fetal exposure to maternal low-protein diets for any period in gestation may programme hypertension in the rat. Alterations to renal structure, renal hormone action or the hypothalamic—pituitary-adrenal axis may all play a role in the programming phenomenon, either independently or in concert.


Author(s):  
Warid Khayata ◽  
Ahmad Kamri ◽  
Rasha Alsaleh

<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this work was to investigate the capability of a high dose of thaumatin; a sweet tasting protein, of improving induced protein malnutrition in male Wistar rats.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>For this study, 12 rats were divided into 2 groups and treated orally along with a high-carbohydrate, low-protein diet as follows: water group as a negative control, and thaumatin group at a dose of 464 mg/kg for 3 consecutive w. Blood samples were collected to analyse glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, and total protein, and body weight was measured. An oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was carried out at the end of the experiment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Despite the high amount of<strong> </strong>thaumatin used, only a slight increase in blood glucose occurred and was within the normal range, whereas serum triglycerides and cholesterol decreased significantly unlike control. Body weight had declined in both groups due to a low-protein diet, while total protein and glucose tolerance remained unchanged.</p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>It is found that<strong> </strong>thaumatin is safe to consume by Wistar rats even at high doses. Besides that high-carbohydrate, low-protein diet caused falling of body weight, it had drawbacks of increased triglycerides and cholesterol levels which can be useful to create animal models of abnormal lipid metabolism without obesity. However, simultaneous ingestion of thaumatin with this diet had altered the outcomes to the best case. In future, it may be possible to use this combination for achieving healthy eating patterns without drug intervention that is needed for obese patients with various dysglycemia or dyslipidemia manifestations and people following regimes for weight reduction.<p> </p>


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