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Eirin A, Chade AR, Lerman LO. Kidney Intrinsic Mechanisms as Novel Targets in Renovascular Hypertension. Hypertension 2024; 81:206-217. [PMID: 37869904 PMCID: PMC10842320 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.123.21362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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Almost a hundred years have passed since obstruction of the renal artery has been recognized to raise blood pressure. By now chronic renovascular disease (RVD) due to renal artery stenosis is recognized as a major source of renovascular hypertension and renal disease. In some patients, RVD unaccompanied by noteworthy renal dysfunction or blood pressure elevation may be incidentally identified during peripheral angiography. Nevertheless, in others, RVD might present as a progressive disease associated with diffuse atherosclerosis, leading to loss of renal function, renovascular hypertension, hemodynamic compromise, and a magnified risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Atherosclerotic RVD leads to renal atrophy, inflammation, and hypoxia but represents a potentially treatable cause of chronic renal failure because until severe fibrosis sets in the ischemic kidney, it retains a robust potential for vascular and tubular regeneration. This remarkable recovery capacity of the kidney begs for early diagnosis and treatment. However, accumulating evidence from both animal studies and randomized clinical trials has convincingly established the inadequate efficacy of renal artery revascularization to fully restore renal function or blood pressure control and has illuminated the potential of therapies targeted to the ischemic renal parenchyma to instigate renal regeneration. Some of the injurious mechanisms identified as potential therapeutic targets included oxidative stress, microvascular disease, inflammation, mitochondrial injury, and cellular senescence. This review recapitulates the intrinsic mechanisms that orchestrate renal damage and recovery in RVD and can be harnessed to introduce remedial opportunities.
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- Alfonso Eirin
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Lee CJ, Gardiner BS, Evans RG, Smith DW. A model of oxygen transport in the rat renal medulla. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2018; 315:F1787-F1811. [DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00363.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The renal medulla is prone to hypoxia. Medullary hypoxia is postulated to be a leading cause of acute kidney injury, so there is considerable interest in predicting the oxygen tension in the medulla. Therefore we have developed a computational model for blood and oxygen transport within a physiologically normal rat renal medulla, using a multilevel modeling approach. For the top-level model we use the theory of porous media and advection-dispersion transport through a realistic three-dimensional representation of the medulla’s gross anatomy to describe blood flow and oxygen transport throughout the renal medulla. For the lower-level models, we employ two-dimensional reaction-diffusion models describing the distribution of oxygen through tissue surrounding the vasculature. Steady-state model predictions at the two levels are satisfied simultaneously, through iteration between the levels. The computational model was validated by simulating eight sets of experimental data regarding renal oxygenation in rats (using 4 sets of control groups and 4 sets of treatment groups, described in 4 independent publications). Predicted medullary tissue oxygen tension or microvascular oxygen tension for control groups and for treatment groups that underwent moderate perturbation in hemodynamic and renal functions is within ±2 SE values observed experimentally. Diffusive shunting between descending and ascending vasa recta is predicted to be only 3% of the oxygen delivered. The validation tests confirm that the computational model is robust and capable of capturing the behavior of renal medullary oxygenation in both normal and early-stage pathological states in the rat.
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- Chang-Joon Lee
- School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Cardiovascular Disease Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Moreno C, Llinás MT, Rodriguez F, Moreno JM, Salazar FJ. Nitric oxide, prostaglandins and angiotensin II in the regulation of renal medullary blood flow during volume expansion. J Physiol Biochem 2015; 72:1-8. [PMID: 26611113 DOI: 10.1007/s13105-015-0450-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Regulation of medullary blood flow (MBF) is essential in maintaining renal function and blood pressure. However, it is unknown whether outer MBF (OMBF) and papillary blood flow (PBF) are regulated independently when extracellular volume (ECV) is enhanced. The aim of this study was to determine whether OMBF and PBF are differently regulated and whether there is an interaction between nitric oxide (NO), prostaglandins (PGs) and angiotensin II (Ang II) in regulating OMBF and PBF when ECV is enhanced. To achieve these goals, OMBF and PBF were measured by laser-Doppler in volume-expanded rats treated with a cyclooxygenase inhibitor (meclofenamate, 3 mg/kg) and/or a NO synthesis inhibitor (L-nitro-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), 3 μg/kg/min) and/or Ang II (10 ng/kg/min). OMBF was unchanged by NO or PGs synthesis inhibition but decreased by 36 % (P < 0.05) when L-NAME and meclofenamate were infused simultaneously. PBF was similarly reduced by L-NAME (12 %), meclofenamate (17 %) or L-NAME + meclofenamate (19 %). Ang II did not modify OMBF, but it led to a similar decrease (P < 0.05) in OMBF when it was administered to rats with reduced NO (32 %), PGs (36 %) or NO and PGs (37 %) synthesis. In contrast, the fall in PBF induced by Ang II (12 %) was enhanced (P < 0.05) by the simultaneous PGs (30 %) or PGs and NO (31 %) synthesis inhibition but not in L-NAME-treated rats (20 %). This study presents novel findings suggesting that blood flows to the outer medulla and renal papilla are differently regulated and showing that there is a complex interaction between NO, PGs and Ang II in regulating OMBF and PBF when ECV is enhanced.
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- Carol Moreno
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, MedImmune, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, 30100, Spain.,Regional Campus of International Excellence "Mare Nostrum", Murcia, Spain.,Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biomédica, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, 30100, Spain.,Regional Campus of International Excellence "Mare Nostrum", Murcia, Spain.,Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biomédica, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, 30100, Spain.,Regional Campus of International Excellence "Mare Nostrum", Murcia, Spain.,Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biomédica, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, 30100, Spain. .,Regional Campus of International Excellence "Mare Nostrum", Murcia, Spain. .,Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biomédica, Murcia, Spain.
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Kennedy‐Lydon TM, Crawford C, Wildman SSP, Peppiatt‐Wildman CM. Renal pericytes: regulators of medullary blood flow. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2013; 207:212-25. [PMID: 23126245 PMCID: PMC3561688 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2012] [Revised: 07/03/2012] [Accepted: 09/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Regulation of medullary blood flow (MBF) is essential in maintaining normal kidney function. Blood flow to the medulla is supplied by the descending vasa recta (DVR), which arise from the efferent arterioles of juxtamedullary glomeruli. DVR are composed of a continuous endothelium, intercalated with smooth muscle-like cells called pericytes. Pericytes have been shown to alter the diameter of isolated and in situ DVR in response to vasoactive stimuli that are transmitted via a network of autocrine and paracrine signalling pathways. Vasoactive stimuli can be released by neighbouring tubular epithelial, endothelial, red blood cells and neuronal cells in response to changes in NaCl transport and oxygen tension. The experimentally described sensitivity of pericytes to these stimuli strongly suggests their leading role in the phenomenon of MBF autoregulation. Because the debate on autoregulation of MBF fervently continues, we discuss the evidence favouring a physiological role for pericytes in the regulation of MBF and describe their potential role in tubulo-vascular cross-talk in this region of the kidney. Our review also considers current methods used to explore pericyte activity and function in the renal medulla.
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- Medway School of Pharmacy The Universities of Kent and Greenwich at Medway Kent UK
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- Medway School of Pharmacy The Universities of Kent and Greenwich at Medway Kent UK
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Legrand M, Payen D. Understanding urine output in critically ill patients. Ann Intensive Care 2011; 1:13. [PMID: 21906341 PMCID: PMC3224471 DOI: 10.1186/2110-5820-1-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2011] [Accepted: 05/24/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Urine output often is used as a marker of acute kidney injury but also to guide fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients. Although decrease of urine output may be associated to a decrease of glomerular filtration rate due to decrease of renal blood flow or renal perfusion pressure, neurohormonal factors and functional changes may influence diuresis and natriuresis in critically ill patients. The purpose of this review is to discuss the mechanisms of diuresis regulation, which may help to interpret the urine output in critically ill patients and the appropriate treatment to be initiated in case of changes in urine output.
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- Matthieu Legrand
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and SAMU, Lariboisière Hospital, Assistance Publique- Hopitaux de Paris; University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, 2 rue Ambroise-Paré, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France.
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Affiliation(s)
- Allen W Cowley
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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Reckelhoff JF, Romero JC. Role of oxidative stress in angiotensin-induced hypertension. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2003; 284:R893-912. [PMID: 12626356 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00491.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Infusion of ANG II at a rate not sufficient to evoke an immediate vasoconstrictor response, produces a slow increase in blood pressure. Circulating levels of ANG II may be within ranges found in normotensive individuals, although inappropriately high with respect to sodium intake. When ANG II levels are dissociated from sodium levels, oxidative stress (OXST) occurs, which can increase blood pressure by several mechanisms. These include inadequate production or reduction of bioavailability of nitric oxide, alterations in metabolism of arachidonic acid, resulting in an increase in vasoconstrictors and decrease in vasodilators, and upregulation of endothelin. This cascade of events appears to be linked, because ANG II hypertension can be blocked by inhibition of any factor located distally, blockade of ANG II, OXST, or endothelin. Such characteristics are shared by other models of hypertension, such as essential hypertension, hypertension induced by reduction in renal mass, and renovascular hypertension. Thus these findings are clinically important because they reveal 1) uncoupling between ANG II and sodium, which can trigger pathological conditions; 2) the various OXST mechanisms that may be involved in hypertension; and 3) therapeutic interventions for hypertension developed with the knowledge of the cascade involving OXST.
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- Jane F Reckelhoff
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA
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Eppel GA, Bergstrom G, Anderson WP, Evans RG. Autoregulation of renal medullary blood flow in rabbits. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2003; 284:R233-44. [PMID: 12388459 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00061.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We examined the extent of renal medullary blood flow (MBF) autoregulation in pentobarbital-anesthetized rabbits. Two methods for altering renal arterial pressure (RAP) were compared: the conventional method of graded suprarenal aortic occlusion and an extracorporeal circuit that allows RAP to be increased above systemic arterial pressure. Changes in MBF were estimated by laser-Doppler flowmetry, which appears to predominantly reflect erythrocyte velocity, rather than flow, in the kidney. We compared responses using a dual-fiber needle probe held in place by a micromanipulator, with responses from a single-fiber probe anchored to the renal capsule, to test whether RAP-induced changes in kidney volume confound medullary laser-Doppler flux (MLDF) measurements. MLDF responses were similar for both probe types and both methods for altering RAP. MLDF changed little as RAP was altered from 50 to >or=170 mmHg (24 +/- 22% change). Within the same RAP range, RBF increased by 296 +/- 48%. Urine flow and sodium excretion also increased with increasing RAP. Thus pressure diuresis/natriuresis proceeds in the absence of measurable increases in medullary erythrocyte velocity estimated by laser-Doppler flowmetry. These data do not, however, exclude the possibility that MBF is increased with increasing RAP in this model, because vasa recta recruitment may occur.
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- Gabriela A Eppel
- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Mattson DL. Importance of the renal medullary circulation in the control of sodium excretion and blood pressure. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2003; 284:R13-27. [PMID: 12482743 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00321.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The control of renal medullary perfusion and the impact of alterations in medullary blood flow on renal function have been topics of research interest for almost four decades. Many studies have examined the vascular architecture of the renal medulla, the factors that regulate renal medullary blood flow, and the influence of medullary perfusion on sodium and water excretion and arterial pressure. Despite these studies, there are still a number of important unanswered questions in regard to the control of medullary perfusion and the influence of medullary blood flow on renal excretory function and blood pressure. This review will first address the vascular architecture of the renal medulla and the potential mechanisms whereby medullary perfusion may be regulated. The known extrarenal and local systems that influence the medullary vasculature will then be summarized. Finally, this review will present an overview of the evidence supporting the concept that selective changes in medullary perfusion can have a potent influence on sodium and water excretion with a long-term influence on arterial blood pressure regulation.
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- David L Mattson
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA.
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Treeck B, Roald AB, Tenstad O, Aukland K. Effect of exogenous and endogenous angiotensin II on intrarenal distribution of glomerular filtration rate in rats. J Physiol 2002; 541:1049-57. [PMID: 12068062 PMCID: PMC2290377 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.018390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2002] [Accepted: 03/18/2002] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Different changes in glomerular filtration rates (GFR) in deep and superficial glomeruli have been suggested to influence renal NaCl excretion and concentrating ability. Angiotensin II (AngII) has been implicated in such changes, but the experimental evidence has been conflicting, probably because of the methodological limitation of just one 'snapshot' measurement of local GFR per kidney. We have therefore studied the effect of AngII and AT(1)-receptor blockade on glomerular filtration in outer, middle and inner cortex (OC, MC and IC, respectively) in pentobarbitone-anaesthetised rats using the aprotinin (Ap) method, providing control and experimental measurements in the same kidney. Glomerular filtration rate per gram cortical tissue was measured based on 'free' glomerular filtration of Ap followed by complete tubular uptake and a 20 min sojourn in the proximal tubular cells before breakdown and incipient return to the plasma.(125)I-labelled Ap was injected I.V. to determine control Ap clearance, followed after 13 min by injection of AngII or the A1 type AngII receptor blocker losartan and 2 min thereafter by (131)I-labelled Ap to determine clearance in the experimental period. Tracer activity in frequent blood samples and in tissue samples allowed calculation of GFR in the two periods. Mean GFR control values were: 1.13 ml min(-1) in whole kidney and 1.44, 1.27 and 0.76 ml min(-1) per gram cortical tissue in OC, MC and IC, respectively. The most sensitive and comprehensive measure of altered GFR distribution is the ratio between the relative filtration change in inner versus that in outer cortex, F = (IC(E)/IC(C))/(OC(E)/OC(C)), where subscripts E and C stand for experimental and control, respectively. F values greater than 1.00 directly indicate and quantify a relatively greater increase of filtration rate in inner than in outer cortex. We found in salt-replete rats that at practically unchanged total GFR, intravenous and intra-arterial infusion of AngII increased F to 1.07 and 1.04 (P < 0.05) whereas losartan reduced F to 0.99. After pretreatment with the inhibitor of nitric oxide production L-NAME, losartan increased total GFR by 8 % and F fell to 0.95 (P < 0.05). In salt-depleted rats losartan reduced F to 0.95 (P < 0.05) at unchanged total GFR. All IC/OC changes induced by losartan were significantly different from that obtained by AngII infusions. We conclude that deep nephrons have higher postglomerular AngII tone and also higher AngII sensitivity than superficial nephrons. The better preserved GFR in deep cortex during AngII action may contribute towards maintaining the renal concentrating ability by providing NaCl for reabsorption by the ascending limb of the loop of Henle.
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- Birte Treeck
- Department of Physiology, University of Bergen, Norway
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Nishiyama A, Kimura S, Fukui T, Rahman M, Yoneyama H, Kosaka H, Abe Y. Blood flow-dependent changes in renal interstitial guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate in rabbits. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2002; 282:F238-44. [PMID: 11788437 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00087.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We examined responses of renal interstitial guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) to changes in renal perfusion pressure (RPP) within and below the range of renal blood flow (RBF) autoregulation. A microdialysis method was used to monitor renal cortical and medullary interstitial cGMP levels in anesthetized rabbits. RPP was reduced in two steps: from ambient pressure (89 +/- 3 mmHg) to 70 +/- 2 mmHg (step 1) and then to 48 +/- 3 mmHg (step 2). RBF was maintained in step 1 but was significantly decreased in step 2 from 2.94 +/- 0.23 to 1.47 +/- 0.08 ml x min(-1) x g(-1). Basal interstitial concentrations of cGMP were significantly lower in the cortex than in the medulla (12.1 +/- 1.4 and 19.9 +/- 0.4 nmol/l, respectively). Cortical and medullary cGMP did not change in step 1 but were significantly decreased in step 2, with significantly less reduction in cGMP concentrations in the medulla than in the cortex (-25 +/- 3 and -44 +/- 3%, respectively). Over this pressure range, changes in cortical and medullary cGMP were highly correlated with changes in RBF (r = 0.94, P < 0.005 for cortex; r = 0.82, P < 0.01 for medulla). Renal interstitial nitrate/nitrite was not changed in step 1 but was significantly decreased in step 2 (-38 +/- 2% in cortex and -20 +/- 2% in medulla). Nitric oxide synthase inhibition with N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 30 mg/kg bolus, 50 mg x kg(-1) x h(-1) i.v. infusion) significantly decreased RBF (by -46 +/- 4%) and interstitial concentrations of cGMP (-27 +/- 4% in cortex and -22 +/- 4% in medulla, respectively). During L-NAME treatment, renal interstitial concentrations of cGMP in the cortex and medulla were similarly not altered in step 1. However, L-NAME significantly attenuated cGMP responses to a reduction in RPP in step 2. These results indicate that acute changes in RBF result in alterations in nitric oxide-dependent renal interstitial cGMP levels, with differential effects in the medulla compared with the cortex.
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- Akira Nishiyama
- Department of Pharmacology, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan.
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