Isotonic Saline Infusion Stimulates Plasma Release of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide (ANP) in Man

1986 ◽  
Vol 70 (s13) ◽  
pp. 74P-74P ◽  
Author(s):  
JV Anderson ◽  
J Donckier ◽  
W McKenna ◽  
ACR Burns ◽  
SR Bloom
1986 ◽  
Vol 251 (3) ◽  
pp. R499-R503 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Salazar ◽  
J. C. Romero ◽  
J. C. Burnett ◽  
S. Schryver ◽  
J. P. Granger

The purpose of the present study was to determine if acute and chronic increases in sodium intake by isotonic saline infusion are accompanied by changes in plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide (PANP). Acute saline loading (5% body wt) over a 30-min period in seven conscious chronically instrumented dogs produced a significant increase in PANP (48 +/- 5 to 119 +/- 24 pg/ml, P less than 0.05). However, chronic and progressive increments of sodium intake from 5 to 75 to 300 meq/day for 7 days, each by isotonic saline infusion, were examined in the same group of dogs and had no significant effect on PANP. PANP's were 37 +/- 7, 39 +/- 8, and 33 +/- 5 pg/ml when sodium intake was changed from 5 to 75 to 300 meq/day, respectively. The increase of sodium intake from 5 to 75 meq/day produced decreases of plasma renin activity (PRA) (2.5 +/- 0.5 to 1.5 +/- 0.4 ng angiotensin I X ml-1 X h-1, P less than 0.05), plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) (19.3 +/- 5.4 to 2.9 +/- 0.4 pg/ml, P less than 0.05), and urinary excretion of prostaglandin E2 (760 +/- 131 to 320 +/- 58 pg/min, P less than 0.05). Further increase of sodium intake to 300 meq/day induced decreases of PRA and PAC to undetectable levels and an increase of urinary excretion of 6-ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha (649 +/- 95 to 1,056 +/- 148 pg/min, P less than 0.05). Before the completion of the study, sodium intake was decreased from 300 to 75 meq/day.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe A. Sagnella ◽  
Donald R. J. Singer ◽  
Nirmala D. Markandu ◽  
Graham A. MacGregor ◽  
David G. Shirley ◽  
...  

The present study examines hormonal and renal responses to acute volume expansion in normal man, with particular emphasis on the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) – cyclic GMP coupling. Two liters of isotonic saline were infused into eight normotensive male subjects over a 1-h period. Plasma and urinary measurements were made before, during, and up to 300 min after the start of the saline infusion. With the initial increase in urinary sodium excretion there were increases in plasma ANP and plasma cyclic GMP, which reached maximum levels at 15 min after the end of the saline infusion. Urinary cyclic GMP increased gradually during saline infusion up to approximately 60 min after the end of the infusion. Plasma ANP and plasma and urinary cyclic GMP excretion gradually declined thereafter. By contrast, urinary sodium excretion remained elevated up to the end of the observation period. The saline infusion was associated with marked reductions in plasma renin activity and aldosterone, which persisted up to the end of the study. These results suggest a coupling between the increases in plasma ANP, the production of cyclic GMP, and urinary sodium excretion, in particular during the initial renal response to acute volume expansion. However, other mechanisms including the suppression of the rennin–angiotensin–aldosterone system may become increasingly important in the later natriuretic response to acute volume expansion.Key words: atrial natriuretic peptide, cyclic GMP, sodium, renal, human.


1998 ◽  
Vol 275 (5) ◽  
pp. R1605-R1610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takamasa Tsuchida ◽  
Yoshio Takei

The effects of eel atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on drinking were investigated in eels adapted to freshwater (FW) or seawater (SW) or in FW eels whose drinking was stimulated by a 2-ml hemorrhage. An intra-arterial infusion of ANP (0.3–3.0 pmol ⋅ kg−1 ⋅ min−1), which increased plasma ANP level 1.5- to 20-fold, inhibited drinking dose dependently in all groups of eels. The drinking rate recovered to the level before ANP infusion within 2 h after infusate was replaced by saline. The inhibition at 3.0 pmol ⋅ kg−1 ⋅ min−1was profound in FW eels and hemorrhaged FW eels, whereas significant drinking still remained after inhibition in SW eels. Plasma ANG II concentration also decreased dose dependently during ANP infusion and recovered to the initial level after saline infusion in all groups of eels. The decrease at 3.0 pmol ⋅ kg−1 ⋅ min−1was large in FW eels and hemorrhaged FW eels compared with that of SW eels. Thus the changes in drinking rate and plasma ANG II level were parallel during ANP infusion. Plasma sodium concentration and osmolality decreased during ANP infusion in SW and FW eels, and they were restored after saline infusion. In hemorrhaged FW eels, however, ANP infusion did not alter plasma sodium concentration and osmolality. Hematocrit did not change during ANP infusion in any group of eels. Collectively, ANP infusion at physiological doses decreased drinking rate and plasma ANG II concentration in parallel in both FW and SW eels. It remains undetermined whether the inhibition of drinking is caused by direct action of ANP or through inhibition of ANG II, which is known as a potent dipsogen in all vertebrate species, including eels.


1992 ◽  
Vol 262 (5) ◽  
pp. F744-F754 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Drummer ◽  
R. Gerzer ◽  
M. Heer ◽  
B. Molz ◽  
P. Bie ◽  
...  

Several hormonal systems participating in body fluid and electrolyte homeostasis were investigated in six healthy volunteers in a supine body position during a period of 9 days and nights. Under strictly controlled conditions, striking circadian rhythms were observed for plasma levels of vasopressin, renin, aldosterone, guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate, cortisol, and epinephrine. Nocturnal decreases and diurnal increases in urine flow rate and urinary excretion of electrolytes were observed and closely paralleled the urinary excretion of urodilatin. During 48 h after an acute isotonic saline infusion (2 liters within 25 min) and after a 48-h control experiment the urinary excretion of H2O and electrolytes, and simultaneously the alterations in endocrine systems participating in body fluid homeostasis, were determined. Urine flow and urinary electrolyte excretion rates were significantly increased during 2 days after the saline infusion. The largest increase in urinary fluid and electrolyte excretion was observed between 3 and 22 h postinfusion. These long-term changes were paralleled by altered H2O and Na balances and also by elevated body weights that returned to baseline values with an approximate half-life of 7 h. These data suggest that vasopressin, atrial natriuretic peptide, and catecholamines are unlikely to be of major importance for the renal response to this hypervolemic stimulus. The renin-aldosterone system was suppressed during 2 days postinfusion. This suppression correlated with the effects of saline load on Na excretion. However, the closest relation with Na excretion was observed for the kidney-derived member of the atrial natriuretic peptide family, urodilatin, which was considerably increased during the long-term period up to 22 h postinfusion. Thus these data show that the human body in supine position requires approximately 2 days to regulate the amount of Na and H2O provided by an acute saline infusion. The data also suggest that urodilatin and the renin-aldosterone system might participate in the long-term renal response to an acute saline infusion and also in the mediation of circadian urinary excretion rhythms.


1987 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Walker ◽  
Charles P. Swainson ◽  
Tim G. Yandle ◽  
M. Gary Nicholls ◽  
Eric A. Espiner

1. Plasma levels of immunoreactive alpha human atrial natriuretic peptide (IR-ANP) were measured in nine patients with chronic renal failure before and after removal of 1.3–3.7 litres of fluid by ultrafiltration and again during volume repletion with intravenous sodium chloride solution (150 mmol/l: saline). 2. Baseline levels of IR-ANP were elevated but fell by 22% during ultrafiltration. 3. Saline infusion induced a rapid and steep rise in IR-ANP levels which were 150% of baseline while body weight was still 2% below baseline. 4. Changes in plasma renin, angiotensin II, aldosterone and vasopressin during the study were slight compared with the change in IR-ANP, but noradrenaline levels rose threefold during ultrafiltration. 5. There was a significant positive relationship between arterial pressure and IR-ANP levels before and after ultrafiltration. 6. These results lend support to the suggestion that atrial peptides are of physiological importance, especially in states of chronic fluid overload such as chronic renal failure.


1996 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Ishimitsu ◽  
Toshio Nishikimi ◽  
Hiroaki Matsuoka ◽  
Kenji Kangawa ◽  
Kazuo Kitamura ◽  
...  

1. Responses of adrenomedullin to acute and chronic salt loading were examined in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. 2. In the acute salt load study, isotonic saline (50 ml/kg for 1 h) was intravenously infused into nine normotensive subjects and 11 patients with essential hypertension. Plasma adrenomedullin was higher in hypertensive than in normotensive subjects but was unchanged by saline infusion in either the normotensive (before infusion, 2.4 ± 0.2 fmol/ml; after infusion, 2.4±0.1 fmol/ml) or hypertensive (before infusion, 3.0±0.1 fmol/ml; after infusion, 2.9 ± 0.2 fmol/ml) group, while renin was suppressed and atrial natriuretic peptide was markedly increased. Plasma endothelin was not affected either. 3. In the chronic salt load study, seven normotensive subjects and 23 patients with essential hypertension underwent two 7-day periods of 30 and 260 mmol/day sodium intake. Depending on the blood pressure change, 13 hypertensive subjects were classified as salt-resistant and 10 as salt-sensitive. Salt-sensitive hypertensive subjects had suppressed plasma renin activity even during low salt intake. Plasma adrenomedullin or endothelin were not affected by the salt intake changes in any group; however, the high salt intake increased atrial natriuretic peptide in all groups. 4. These data indicate that the circulating level of adrenomedullin is not changed by either acute or chronic salt loading in normotensive subjects and patients with essential hypertension.


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