Abnormal renal hemodynamics and pressure-natriuresis relationship in Dahl salt-sensitive rats

1986 ◽  
Vol 251 (1) ◽  
pp. F57-F65 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Roman

The renal responses to changes in renal perfusion pressure (RPP) were compared in Dahl salt-resistant (R) rats and in prehypertensive and hypertensive Dahl salt-sensitive (S) rats to determine whether an abnormality in the pressure diuresis response is involved in the development of this form of hypertension. Possible differences in the neural and endocrine background to the kidney of S and R rats were eliminated by denervating the kidney and by holding plasma levels of vasopressin, aldosterone, corticosterone, and norepinephrine fixed by intravenous infusion. Arterial pressure averaged 124 +/- 1 mmHg in R rats, 133 +/- 1 mmHg in prehypertensive S rats, and 158 +/- 2 mmHg in hypertensive S rats. Control renal blood flows (RBF) and glomerular filtration rates (GFR) were not significantly different in the three groups. RBF was autoregulated over a range of pressures from 80 to 160 mmHg in normotensive S and R rats. GFR was autoregulated at pressures greater than 100 mmHg in R rats and greater than 120 mmHg in prehypertensive S rats. In contrast, RBF was only autoregulated at pressures greater than 110 mmHg in hypertensive Dahl S rats, and GFR was significantly reduced from control when RPP was lowered below 150 mmHg. In R rats, increasing RPP from 100 to 150 mmHg produced a fivefold increase in urine flow and sodium excretion. In prehypertensive or hypertensive Dahl S rats the slopes of the relationships between urine flow, sodium excretion, and RPP were less than half of those seen in R rats.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

1987 ◽  
Vol 252 (5) ◽  
pp. F856-F864 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Krayacich ◽  
R. L. Kline ◽  
P. F. Mercer

The effect of norepinephrine (NE) infusion (10, 100, and 330 ng/min, iv) on renal blood flow (RBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), urine flow, and sodium excretion was studied during ganglionic blockade in Inactin-anesthetized Wistar rats with one kidney innervated and the contralateral kidney denervated 7-10 days before the experiment. During the NE infusions, steady-state mean arterial pressure was 73 +/- 3, 91 +/- 5, and 117 +/- 2 mmHg, whereas plasma NE concentration averaged 3.9 +/- 1.2, 26.4 +/- 3.2, and 78.1 +/- 4.8 pmol/ml, respectively. At the lowest dose, RBF and GFR were decreased significantly in both kidneys but were significantly lower in the denervated kidneys than in the innervated kidneys. Urine flow and total and fractional sodium excretion increased significantly from the innervated kidneys but not from the denervated kidneys during the 100 and 330 ng/min infusion of NE. When renal perfusion pressure was controlled at the level found after ganglionic blockade, RBF and GFR decreased significantly in both kidneys but to a greater extent in the denervated kidneys at all doses of NE. Urine flow and total and fractional sodium excretion decreased significantly from the denervated kidneys at all doses of NE but decreased from the innervated kidneys only at the highest dose. These results indicate that in chronically denervated kidneys both tubular and vascular responses to NE are altered. The data support the conclusion that denervation supersensitivity can significantly alter renal responses to increased plasma concentration of NE.


1991 ◽  
Vol 260 (5) ◽  
pp. F643-F649 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Gonzalez-Campoy ◽  
C. Long ◽  
D. Roberts ◽  
T. J. Berndt ◽  
J. C. Romero ◽  
...  

The present study tested the hypothesis that the presence of renal prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is necessary for full natriuretic response to increased renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (RIHP) during increased renal perfusion pressure (RPP). In control untreated pentobarbital-anesthetized dogs (n = 7), fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) was 1.17 +/- 0.48, 1.07 +/- 0.24, and 2.69 +/- 0.57% at RPP of 90, 122, and 148 mmHg, respectively. These changes in FENa were associated with effective renal blood flows (ERBF) of 1.43 +/- 0.20, 1.49 +/- 0.23, and 1.99 +/- 0.40 ml.min-1.g kidney wt-1, respectively. Similarly, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was 0.53 +/- 0.10, 0.71 +/- 0.10, and 0.72 +/- 0.14 ml.min-1.g kidney wt-1, respectively. Treatment with indomethacin, a cyclooxygenase inhibitor, significantly lowered FENa to 0.45 +/- 0.13, 0.77 +/- 0.21, and 1.19 +/- 0.59% at RPP of 91, 121, and 146 mmHg, respectively. Additionally, indomethacin treatment lowered ERBF (0.51 +/- 0.15, 0.52 +/- 0.10, and 0.85 +/- 0.21 ml.min-1.g kidney wt-1) and GFR (0.28 +/- 0.09, 0.34 +/- 0.09, and 0.47 +/- 0.09 ml.min-1.g kidney wt-1) at low, middle, and high RPP, respectively. PGE2 replacement (n = 6) into renal artery at 0.01 microgram.min-1.kg body wt-1 returned FENa, ERBF, and GFR to control levels over the same range of RPP, whereas prostacyclin (PGI2) infusion (n = 7) at the same dose did not. RIHP was 4.2 +/- 1.2, 4.2 + 0.5, and 7.5 +/- 1.7 mmHg with increasing RPP in control untreated group and increased to similar levels with indomethacin treatment and during PGE2 or PGI2 replacement.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (1) ◽  
pp. F165-F170 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Khraibi ◽  
J. A. Haas ◽  
F. G. Knox

The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that changes in renal perfusion pressure may be transmitted to the renal interstitium and cause alterations in renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure and sodium excretion. A method that utilizes a chronically implanted polyethylene matrix that allows for direct continuous measurement of renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure, and agrees well with subcapsular measurement in rats, was developed. Renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure, fractional excretion of sodium, and urine flow rate were 3.0 +/- 0.3 mmHg, 0.35 +/- 0.13%, and 19.44 +/- 3.00 microliter/min, respectively, when renal perfusion pressure was 101 +/- 0.8 mmHg. When renal perfusion pressure was increased to 123 +/- 0.9 mmHg renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure, fractional excretion of sodium, and urine flow rate increased significantly to 5.8 +/- 0.6 mmHg, 1.29 +/- 0.29%, and 50.76 +/- 8.83 microliter/min, respectively, in anesthetized male Sprague-Dawley rats. These changes occur despite a well-autoregulated glomerular filtration rate and renal blood flow. In conclusion, increasing renal perfusion pressure caused a significant increase in renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure as measured directly by the implanted polyethylene matrix method and was associated with a significant increase in sodium excretion.


1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (3) ◽  
pp. F424-F431 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. V. Paul ◽  
K. A. Kirk ◽  
L. G. Navar

We examined the autoregulation of renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in the anesthetized dog during selective renal arterial infusion of two different synthetic atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) analogues. Rat atriopeptin II (5 X 10(-8) M in renal arterial blood) caused increases in sodium and water excretion but left RBF and GFR unchanged. A similar response was seen with rat 8-33 atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) (10(-9) M), but a twofold higher dose of this peptide produced a transient increase in RBF and a sustained 16% increase in GFR. The normal pattern of RBF autoregulation in response to decreases in renal perfusion pressure was not altered by either peptide. GFR was also efficiently autoregulated during ANF infusion; however, there was a threefold increase in the slope of the relationship between sodium excretion and arterial pressure (pressure natriuresis) during 8-33 ANP infusion (control 1.11 +/- 0.39, 8-33 ANP 4.00 +/- 0.86 mu eq/mmHg, P less than 0.01). We conclude that ANF-induced diuresis can be sustained without detectable changes in either the autoregulation-responsive or autoregulation-independent components of renal vascular resistance. Factors other than GFR, which are highly responsive to renal perfusion pressure, are important in modulating the natriuresis caused by ANF. The augmentation of pressure natriuresis within the GFR autoregulatory range suggests an influence of ANF on the magnitude of arterial pressure-induced changes in tubular sodium reabsorption.


1985 ◽  
Vol 248 (2) ◽  
pp. F199-F205 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Roman ◽  
A. W. Cowley

The renal responses to changes in perfusion pressure (RPP) were studied in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) to determine whether an abnormality in the pressure-diuresis phenomenon could be involved in the resetting of kidney function in hypertension. Differences in the neural and endocrine background to the kidneys were minimized by denervating the kidney and by holding plasma vasopressin, aldosterone, corticosterone, and norepinephrine levels constant by intravenous infusion. In WKY, increasing renal perfusion pressure 54 mmHg, from 103 to 157 mmHg, produced a ninefold increase in urine flow and sodium excretion with no measurable change in renal blood flow (RBF) or glomerular filtration rate (GFR). In SHR, increasing renal perfusion pressure 54 mmHg, from 133 to 187 mmHg, produced only a fourfold increase in urine flow and sodium excretion. GFR, RBF, and peritubular capillary pressures were well autoregulated and were similar in the SHR and WKY at pressures above 110 mmHg. These results indicate the presence of intrinsic changes in the kidney of SHR that enhance fractional tubular reabsorption and impair the pressure-diuresis response. This blunting of the renal pressure-diuresis phenomenon in SHR may represent the functional resetting of the kidney that is necessary for sustained hypertension.


1994 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Vargas ◽  
Noemí M. Atucha ◽  
J. Mario Sabio ◽  
Tomás Quesada ◽  
Joaquín García-Estañ

1. Renal responses to changes in renal perfusion pressure were studied in anaesthetized hyperthyroid (thyroxine, 300 μg day−1 kg−1) and hypothyroid (methimazole, 0.03% via drinking water) rats to determine whether an abnormality in the pressure-diuresis-natriuresis phenomenon is involved in the resetting of kidney function in these disorders. 2. There were no significant differences between control and hypothyroid rats with respect to the relationships between renal perfusion pressure and absolute or fractional water and sodium excretion. However, in hyperthyroid rats the pressure-diuresis-natriuresis mechanism was impaired. 3. Renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate were well autoregulated and there were no differences between control and hypothyroid rats at every level of renal perfusion pressure. A significantly lower glomerular filtration rate was observed in hyperthyroid rats when data were expressed per gram kidney weight, but glomerular filtration rate was similar to that of control rats when normalized by body weight. 4. The shift in the pressure-diuresis-natriuresis response of hyperthyroid rats is mainly due to an increase in tubular reabsorption. Blunting of the renal pressure-diuresis-natriuresis mechanism in hyperthyroid rats may represent the functional resetting of the kidney necessary for sustained hypertension. However, a normal pressure-natriuresis response was observed in hypothyroid rats, in which blood pressure was markedly reduced.


Hypertension ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Nakamura ◽  
Tetsuo Sakamaki ◽  
Toshiaki Kurashina ◽  
Kunio Sato ◽  
Zenpei Ono ◽  
...  

1984 ◽  
Vol 246 (6) ◽  
pp. F828-F834 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. I. Kleinman ◽  
R. O. Banks

Pressure natriuresis was studied in anesthetized saline-expanded adult (n = 10) and neonatal (n = 23) dogs. One group (protocol B) received ethacrynic acid and amiloride to block distal nephron function. Studies in the other group (protocol A) were done without diuretics. Renal arterial blood pressure was raised by bilateral carotid artery occlusion. Renal perfusion pressure was then lowered in steps by partially occluding the aorta proximal to the renal arteries. In protocol B carotid occlusion was associated with an increase in both absolute and fractional sodium excretion by adult and newborn dogs. Moreover, there was significant negative correlation (P less than 0.01) between absolute change in renal arterial pressure and change in tubular reabsorption of sodium per milliliter glomerular filtrate for both age groups. For each mmHg increase in blood pressure there was greater inhibition of sodium reabsorption in the puppy (0.55 mueq/ml glomerular filtrate) than in the adult (0.18 mueq/ml, P less than 0.05). In protocol A puppies, the inhibition of sodium reabsorption due to increases in renal perfusion pressure was less than that occurring in protocol B, indicating that some of the sodium escaping proximal nephron reabsorption was reabsorbed distally. Results of these studies indicate that during saline expansion pressure natriuresis is primarily a proximal tubular event, and the sensitivity of the proximal tubule to changes in renal arterial blood pressure is greater in the newborn than the adult kidney.


1983 ◽  
Vol 244 (4) ◽  
pp. F418-F424 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Kopp ◽  
G. F. DiBona

Anesthetized dogs with isolated carotid sinus preparation were used to examine the mechanisms involved in the increase in renin secretion rate produced by carotid baroreceptor reflex renal nerve stimulation (RNS) at constant renal perfusion pressure. Lowering carotid sinus pressure by 41 +/- 5 mmHg for 10 min increased mean arterial pressure and heart rate, caused no or minimal renal hemodynamic changes, decreased urinary sodium excretion, and increased renin secretion rate. Metoprolol, a beta 1-adrenoceptor antagonist, given in the renal artery, did not affect the decrease in urinary sodium excretion but attenuated the increase in renin secretion rate, from 1,764 +/- 525 to 412 +/- 126 ng/min (70 +/- 8%). Indomethacin or meclofenamate, prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors, did not affect the decrease in urinary sodium excretion but attenuated the increase in renin secretion rate, from 1,523 +/- 416 to 866 +/- 413 ng/min (51 +/- 18%). Addition of metoprolol to indomethacin-pretreated dogs attenuated the increase in renin secretion rate from 833 +/- 327 to 94 +/- 60 ng/min (86 +/- 10%). These results indicate that reflex RNS at constant renal perfusion pressure results in an increase in renin secretion rate that is largely mediated by renal beta 1-adrenoceptors and is partly dependent on intact renal prostaglandin synthesis. The beta 1-adrenoceptor-mediated increase in renin secretion rate is independent of and not in series with renal prostaglandins.


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (1) ◽  
pp. F63-F70 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Garcia-Estan ◽  
R. J. Roman

The present study examines the role of renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (RIHP) in the pressure-diuretic and -natriuretic response. The relationships between RIHP, sodium excretion, and renal perfusion pressure (RPP) were determined in antidiuretic and volume-expanded (VE) rats with an intact or decapsulated kidney. RIHP was measured by use of the implanted capsule technique. RIHP increased significantly from 7.5 +/- 0.8 to 12.0 +/- 1.4 mmHg in VE animals and from 3.3 +/- 0.4 to 5.2 +/- 0.7 mmHg in antidiuretic rats after RPP was varied from 100 to 150 mmHg. The pressure-natriuretic response of the antidiuretic rats was blunted compared with that observed in the VE rats. Decapsulation of the kidney in VE rats lowered RIHP and reduced, but did not eliminate, the pressure-natriuretic response. To determine whether this residual response was related to changes in interstitial pressure in the medulla, cortical (CIHP) and medullary interstitial hydrostatic pressures (MIHP) were simultaneously measured in VE rats with an intact or decapsulated kidney. In control rats CIHP and MIHP were similar at all levels of RPP studied. In rats with the renal capsule removed MIHP was higher than CIHP and rose significantly from 6.7 +/- 0.8 to 9.2 +/- 0.8 mmHg when RPP was varied from 100 to 150 mmHg. These results indicate that pressure diuresis and natriuresis is accompanied by changes in RIHP and the response is modulated by the basal level of RIHP. These findings suggest that changes in MIHP may serve as an intrarenal signal for this response.


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