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Nasrallah R, Zimpelmann J, Robertson SJ, Ghossein J, Thibodeau JF, Kennedy CRJ, Gutsol A, Xiao F, Burger D, Burns KD, Hébert RL. Prostaglandin E2 receptor EP1 (PGE2/EP1) deletion promotes glomerular podocyte and endothelial cell injury in hypertensive TTRhRen mice. J Transl Med 2020; 100:414-425. [PMID: 31527829 DOI: 10.1038/s41374-019-0317-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Prostaglandin E2 receptor EP1 (PGE2/EP1) promotes diabetic renal injury, and EP1 receptor deletion improves hyperfiltration, albuminuria, and fibrosis. The role of EP1 receptors in hypertensive kidney disease (HKD) remains controversial. We examined the contribution of EP1 receptors to HKD. EP1 null (EP1-/-) mice were bred with hypertensive TTRhRen mice (Htn) to evaluate kidney function and injury at 24 weeks. EP1 deletion had no effect on elevation of systolic blood pressure in Htn mice (HtnEP1-/-) but resulted in pronounced albuminuria and reduced FITC-inulin clearance, compared with Htn or wild-type (WT) mice. Ultrastructural injury to podocytes and glomerular endothelium was prominent in HtnEP1-/- mice; including widened subendothelial space, subendothelial lucent zones and focal lifting of endothelium from basement membrane, with focal subendothelial cell debris. Cortex COX2 mRNA was increased by EP1 deletion. Glomerular EP3 mRNA was reduced by EP1 deletion, and EP4 by Htn and EP1 deletion. In WT mice, PGE2 increased chloride reabsorption via EP1 in isolated perfused thick ascending limb (TAL), but PGE2 or EP1 deletion did not affect vasopressin-mediated chloride reabsorption. In WT and Htn mouse inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD), PGE2 inhibited vasopressin-water transport, but not in EP1-/- or HtnEP1-/- mice. Overall, EP1 mediated TAL and IMCD transport in response to PGE2 is unaltered in Htn, and EP1 is protective in HKD.
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- Rania Nasrallah
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Room 2514, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Room 2514, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Room 2514, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Room 2514, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Room 2514, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Room 2514, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
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PGE 2 EP 1 receptor inhibits vasopressin-dependent water reabsorption and sodium transport in mouse collecting duct. J Transl Med 2018; 98:360-370. [PMID: 29251736 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2017.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Revised: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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PGE2 regulates glomerular hemodynamics, renin secretion, and tubular transport. This study examined the contribution of PGE2 EP1 receptors to sodium and water homeostasis. Male EP1-/- mice were bred with hypertensive TTRhRen mice (Htn) to evaluate blood pressure and kidney function at 8 weeks of age in four groups: wildtype (WT), EP1-/-, Htn, HtnEP1-/-. Blood pressure and water balance were unaffected by EP1 deletion. COX1 and mPGE2 synthase were increased and COX2 was decreased in mice lacking EP1, with increases in EP3 and reductions in EP2 and EP4 mRNA throughout the nephron. Microdissected proximal tubule sglt1, NHE3, and AQP1 were increased in HtnEP1-/-, but sglt2 was increased in EP1-/- mice. Thick ascending limb NKCC2 was reduced in the cortex but increased in the medulla. Inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) AQP1 and ENaC were increased, but AVP V2 receptors and urea transporter-1 were reduced in all mice compared to WT. In WT and Htn mice, PGE2 inhibited AVP-water transport and increased calcium in the IMCD, and inhibited sodium transport in cortical collecting ducts, but not in EP1-/- or HtnEP1-/- mice. Amiloride (ENaC) and hydrochlorothiazide (pendrin inhibitor) equally attenuated the effect of PGE2 on sodium transport. Taken together, the data suggest that EP1 regulates renal aquaporins and sodium transporters, attenuates AVP-water transport and inhibits sodium transport in the mouse collecting duct, which is mediated by both ENaC and pendrin-dependent pathways.
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Quintero MC, Putnam RW, Cordovez JM. Theoretical perspectives on central chemosensitivity: CO2/H+-sensitive neurons in the locus coeruleus. PLoS Comput Biol 2017; 13:e1005853. [PMID: 29267284 PMCID: PMC5755939 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Revised: 01/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Central chemoreceptors are highly sensitive neurons that respond to changes in pH and CO2 levels. An increase in CO2/H+ typically reflects a rise in the firing rate of these neurons, which stimulates an increase in ventilation. Here, we present an ionic current model that reproduces the basic electrophysiological activity of individual CO2/H+-sensitive neurons from the locus coeruleus (LC). We used this model to explore chemoreceptor discharge patterns in response to electrical and chemical stimuli. The modeled neurons showed both stimulus-evoked activity and spontaneous activity under physiological parameters. Neuronal responses to electrical and chemical stimulation showed specific firing patterns of spike frequency adaptation, postinhibitory rebound, and post-stimulation recovery. Conversely, the response to chemical stimulation alone (based on physiological CO2/H+ changes), in the absence of external depolarizing stimulation, showed no signs of postinhibitory rebound or post-stimulation recovery, and no depolarizing sag. A sensitivity analysis for the firing-rate response to the different stimuli revealed that the contribution of an applied stimulus current exceeded that of the chemical signals. The firing-rate response increased indefinitely with injected depolarizing current, but reached saturation with chemical stimuli. Our computational model reproduced the regular pacemaker-like spiking pattern, action potential shape, and most of the membrane properties that characterize CO2/H+-sensitive neurons from the locus coeruleus. This validates the model and highlights its potential as a tool for studying the cellular mechanisms underlying the altered central chemosensitivity present in a variety of disorders such as sudden infant death syndrome, depression, and anxiety. In addition, the model results suggest that small external electrical signals play a greater role in determining the chemosensitive response to changes in CO2/H+ than previously thought. This highlights the importance of considering electrical synaptic transmission in studies of intrinsic chemosensitivity. The sensory mechanism by which changes in CO2 and H+ levels are detected in the brain is known as central chemoreception. Altered chemoreception is common to a wide variety of clinical conditions, including sleep apnea, sudden infant death syndrome, hyperventilation, depression, anxiety and asthma. In addition, CO2/H+-sensitive neurons are present in some regions of the brain that have been identified as drug targets for the treatment of anxiety and panic disorders. We are interested in understanding the cellular mechanisms that determine and modulate the behavior of these neurons. We previously investigated possible mechanisms underlying their behavior in rats to elucidate whether they respond to changes in intracellular or extracellular pH, CO2, or a combination of these stimuli. To study the roles that signals and ion channel targets play in individual neurons we develop mathematical models that simulate their electrochemical behavior and their responses to hypercapnic and/or acidotic stimuli. Nowadays, we are focused on using computational tools to explore the firing pattern of such neurons in response to chemical (CO2/H+) and electrical (synaptic) stimulation. Our results reveal significant effects of electrical stimulation on the responses of brainstem neurons and highlight the importance of considering synaptic transmission in experimental studies of chemosensitivity.
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- Maria C. Quintero
- Biomedical Engineering Department, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- * E-mail: (MQ); (JC)
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- Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- * E-mail: (MQ); (JC)
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Wilson RJA, Teppema LJ. Integration of Central and Peripheral Respiratory Chemoreflexes. Compr Physiol 2016; 6:1005-41. [PMID: 27065173 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c140040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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A debate has raged since the discovery of central and peripheral respiratory chemoreceptors as to whether the reflexes they mediate combine in an additive (i.e., no interaction), hypoadditive or hyperadditive manner. Here we critically review pertinent literature related to O2 and CO2 sensing from the perspective of system integration and summarize many of the studies on which these seemingly opposing views are based. Despite the intensity and quality of this debate, we have yet to reach consensus, either within or between species. In reviewing this literature, we are struck by the merits of the approaches and preparations that have been brought to bear on this question. This suggests that either the nature of combination is not important to system responses, contrary to what has long been supposed, or that the nature of the combination is more malleable than previously assumed, changing depending on physiological state and/or respiratory requirement.
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- Richard J A Wilson
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Alberta Children Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Prostaglandin E2 increases proximal tubule fluid reabsorption, and modulates cultured proximal tubule cell responses via EP1 and EP4 receptors. J Transl Med 2015; 95:1044-55. [PMID: 26121313 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2015.79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2014] [Revised: 04/14/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Renal prostaglandin (PG) E2 regulates salt and water transport, and affects disease processes via EP1-4 receptors, but its role in the proximal tubule (PT) is unknown. Our study investigates the effects of PGE2 on mouse PT fluid reabsorption, and its role in growth, sodium transporter expression, fibrosis, and oxidative stress in a mouse PT cell line (MCT). To determine which PGE2 EP receptors are expressed in MCT, qPCR for EP1-4 was performed on cells stimulated for 24 h with PGE2 or transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ), a known mediator of PT injury in kidney disease. EP1 and EP4 were detected in MCT, but EP2 and EP3 are not expressed. EP1 was increased by PGE2 and TGFβ, but EP4 was unchanged. To confirm the involvement of EP1 and EP4, sulprostone (SLP, EP1/3 agonist), ONO8711 (EP1 antagonist), and EP1 and EP4 siRNA were used. We first show that PGE2, SLP, and TGFβ reduced H(3)-thymidine and H(3)-leucine incorporation. The effects on cell-cycle regulators were examined by western blot. PGE2 increased p27 via EP1 and EP4, but TGFβ increased p21; PGE2-induced p27 was attenuated by TGFβ. PGE2 and SLP reduced cyclinE, while TGFβ increased cyclinD1, an effect attenuated by PGE2 administration. Na-K-ATPase α1 (NaK) was increased by PGE2 via EP1 and EP4. TGFβ had no effect on NaK. Additionally, PGE2 and TGFβ increased fibronectin levels, reaching 12-fold upon co-stimulation. EP1 siRNA abrogated PGE2-fibronectin. PGE2 also increased ROS generation, and ONO-8711 blocked PGE2-ROS. Finally, PGE2 significantly increased fluid reabsorption by 31 and 46% in isolated perfused mouse PT from C57BL/6 and FVB mice, respectively, and this was attenuated in FVB-EP1 null mice. Altogether PGE2 acting on EP1 and EP4 receptors may prove to be important mediators of PT injury, and salt and water transport.
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Li KY, Putnam RW. Transient outwardly rectifying A currents are involved in the firing rate response to altered CO2 in chemosensitive locus coeruleus neurons from neonatal rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2013; 305:R780-92. [PMID: 23948777 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00029.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The effect of hypercapnia on outwardly rectifying currents was examined in locus coeruleus (LC) neurons in slices from neonatal rats [postnatal day 3 (P3)-P15]. Two outwardly rectifying currents [4-aminopyridine (4-AP)-sensitive transient current and tetraethyl ammonium (TEA)-sensitive sustained current] were found in LC neurons. 4-AP induced a membrane depolarization of 3.6 ± 0.6 mV (n = 4), while TEA induced a smaller membrane depolarization of 1.2 ± 0.3 mV (n = 4). Hypercapnic acidosis (HA) inhibited both currents. The maximal amplitude of the TEA-sensitive current was reduced by 52.1 ± 4.5% (n = 5) in 15% CO2 [extracellular pH (pHo) 7.00, intracellular pH (pHi) 6.96]. The maximal amplitude of the 4-AP-sensitive current was reduced by 34.5 ± 3.0% (n = 6) in 15% CO2 (pHo 7.00, pHi 6.96), by 29.4 ± 6.8% (n = 6) in 10% CO2 (pHo 7.15, pHi 7.14), and increased by 29.0 ± 6.4% (n = 6) in 2.5% CO2 (pHo 7.75, pHi 7.35). 4-AP completely blocked hypercapnia-induced increased firing rate, but TEA did not affect it. When LC neurons were exposed to HA with either pHo or pHi constant, the 4-AP-sensitive current was inhibited. The data show that the 4-AP-sensitive current (likely an A current) is inhibited by decreases in either pHo or pHi. The change of the A current by various levels of CO2 is correlated with the change in firing rate induced by CO2, implicating the 4-AP-sensitive current in chemosensitive signaling in LC neurons.
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- Ke-Yong Li
- Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio
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Chernov MM, Erlichman JS, Leiter JC. Ionic mechanisms of central CO(2) chemosensitivity. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2010; 173:298-304. [PMID: 20380898 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2010.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2010] [Revised: 03/17/2010] [Accepted: 03/26/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A comparative analysis of chemosensory systems in invertebrates and vertebrates reveals that different animals use similar strategies when sensing CO(2) to control respiration. A variety of animals possess neurons that respond to changes in pH. These respiratory chemoreceptor neurons seem to rely largely on pH-dependent inhibition of potassium channels, but the channels do not appear to be uniquely adapted to detect pH. The 'chemosensory' potassium channels identified thus far are widely distributed, common potassium channels. The pH-sensitivity is a common feature of the channels whether the channels are in chemosensory neurons or not. Thus, the pattern of synaptic connectivity and the mix of potassium channels expressed seem to determine whether a neuron is chemosensory or not, rather than any special adaptation of a channel for pH-sensitivity. Moreover, there are often multiple pH-sensitive channels in each chemosensory neuron. These ionic mechanisms may, however, be only part of the chemosensory process, and pH-dependent modulation of synaptic activity seems to contribute to central chemosensitivity as well. In addition, the exploration of the mechanisms of pH-dependent modulation of ion channel activity in chemosensory cells is incomplete: additional mechanisms of pH modulation of channel activity may be found, and addition conductances, other than potassium channels, may participate in the chemosensory process.
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- Mykyta M Chernov
- Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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Erlichman JS, Putnam RW, Leiter JC. Glial modulation of CO2 chemosensory excitability in the retrotrapezoid nucleus of rodents. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2008; 605:317-21. [PMID: 18085292 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73693-8_55] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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We investigated the possibility that astrocytes modify the extracellular milieu and thereby modify the activity of central CO2 chemosensory neurons. The ability of astrocytes to modify the extracellular milieu is heterogeneously distributed among chemosensory sites that have, at least nominally, the same function. The differences in astrocytic activity may make some central chemosensory sites better attuned to the local brain tissue environment and other chemosensory sites better suited to integrate chemosensory activity from multiple sites within and outside the central nervous system.
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Chernov M, Putnam RW, Leiter JC. A computer model of mammalian central CO2 chemoreception. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2008; 605:301-5. [PMID: 18085289 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73693-8_52] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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We developed a single compartment model of a mammalian CO2 sensitive neuron and tested the hypothesis that pH-dependent inhibition of multiple potassium channels contributes to CO2 sensitivity. pH-dependent inhibition of potassium channels by either intracellular or extracellular pH was sufficient to alter neuronal activity, but changes in neither intracellular nor extracellular pH are required to elicit a neuronal response to hypercapnic stimulation.
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- Mykyta Chernov
- Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Physiology, USA.
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