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Kim GH. Primary Role of the Kidney in Pathogenesis of Hypertension. Life (Basel) 2024; 14:119. [PMID: 38255734 PMCID: PMC10817438 DOI: 10.3390/life14010119] [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: 12/09/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Previous transplantation studies and the concept of 'nephron underdosing' support the idea that the kidney plays a crucial role in the development of essential hypertension. This suggests that there are genetic factors in the kidney that can either elevate or decrease blood pressure. The kidney normally maintains arterial pressure within a narrow range by employing the mechanism of pressure-natriuresis. Hypertension is induced when the pressure-natriuresis mechanism fails due to both subtle and overt kidney abnormalities. The inheritance of hypertension is believed to be polygenic, and essential hypertension may result from a combination of genetic variants that code for renal tubular sodium transporters or proteins involved in regulatory pathways. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) are the major regulators of renal sodium reabsorption. Hyperactivity of either the RAAS or SNS leads to a rightward shift in the pressure-natriuresis curve. In other words, hypertension is induced when the activity of RAAS and SNS is not suppressed despite increased salt intake. Sodium overload, caused by increased intake and/or reduced renal excretion, not only leads to an expansion of plasma volume but also to an increase in systemic vascular resistance. Endothelial dysfunction is caused by an increased intracellular Na+ concentration, which inhibits endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase and reduces NO production. The stiffness of vascular smooth muscle cells is increased by the accumulation of intracellular Na+ and subsequent elevation of cytoplasmic Ca++ concentration. In contrast to the hemodynamic effects of osmotically active Na+, osmotically inactive Na+ stimulates immune cells and produces proinflammatory cytokines, which contribute to hypertension. When this occurs in the gut, the microbiota may become imbalanced, leading to intestinal inflammation and systemic hypertension. In conclusion, the primary cause of hypertension is sodium overload resulting from kidney dysregulation.
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- Gheun-Ho Kim
- Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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Drury ER, Wu J, Gigliotti JC, Le TH. Sex differences in blood pressure regulation and hypertension: renal, hemodynamic, and hormonal mechanisms. Physiol Rev 2024; 104:199-251. [PMID: 37477622 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00041.2022] [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] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Revised: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
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The teleology of sex differences has been argued since at least as early as Aristotle's controversial Generation of Animals more than 300 years BC, which reflects the sex bias of the time to contemporary readers. Although the question "why are the sexes different" remains a topic of debate in the present day in metaphysics, the recent emphasis on sex comparison in research studies has led to the question "how are the sexes different" being addressed in health science through numerous observational studies in both health and disease susceptibility, including blood pressure regulation and hypertension. These efforts have resulted in better understanding of differences in males and females at the molecular level that partially explain their differences in vascular function and renal sodium handling and hence blood pressure and the consequential cardiovascular and kidney disease risks in hypertension. This review focuses on clinical studies comparing differences between men and women in blood pressure over the life span and response to dietary sodium and highlights experimental models investigating sexual dimorphism in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, vascular, sympathetic nervous, and immune systems, endothelin, the major renal sodium transporters/exchangers/channels, and the impact of sex hormones on these systems in blood pressure homeostasis. Understanding the mechanisms governing sex differences in blood pressure regulation could guide novel therapeutic approaches in a sex-specific manner to lower cardiovascular risks in hypertension and advance personalized medicine.
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- Erika R Drury
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States
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- Department of Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology, Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States
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Renal sympathetic activity: A key modulator of pressure natriuresis in hypertension. Biochem Pharmacol 2023; 208:115386. [PMID: 36535529 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2022.115386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Revised: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Hypertension is a complex disorder ensuing necessarily from alterations in the pressure-natriuresis relationship, the main determinant of long-term control of blood pressure. This mechanism sets natriuresis to the level of blood pressure, so that increasing pressure translates into higher osmotically driven diuresis to reduce volemia and control blood pressure. External factors affecting the renal handling of sodium regulate the pressure-natriuresis relationship so that more or less natriuresis is attained for each level of blood pressure. Hypertension can thus only develop following primary alterations in the pressure to natriuresis balance, or by abnormal activity of the regulation network. On the other hand, increased sympathetic tone is a very frequent finding in most forms of hypertension, long regarded as a key element in the pathophysiological scenario. In this article, we critically analyze the interplay of the renal component of the sympathetic nervous system and the pressure-natriuresis mechanism in the development of hypertension. A special focus is placed on discussing recent findings supporting a role of baroreceptors as a component, along with the afference of reno-renal reflex, of the input to the nucleus tractus solitarius, the central structure governing the long-term regulation of renal sympathetic efferent tone.
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Rosen RJ, Stevens JS, Canetta PA, Siddall E. Polyuria due to Pressure Natriuresis in Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. ASAIO J 2022; 68:e124-e127. [PMID: 34593678 DOI: 10.1097/mat.0000000000001594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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We report a case of a 40-year-old woman who developed profound polyuria (>25 L urine output) immediately after initiation of venoarterial (VA) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Investigations into the cause determined the polyuria was due to marked natriuresis (>85 g of sodium excreted in 1 day). This natriuresis persisted despite low cardiac filling pressures and high-negative ECMO venous pressures, suggesting clinical hypovolemia due to pressure natriuresis from locally high pressures at the renal artery due to arterial ECMO inflow. As ECMO flows were decreased, polyuria and natriuresis resolved. To our knowledge, this is the first description of VA-ECMO-associated salt wasting.
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- Raphael J Rosen
- From the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
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Perrin EC, South AM. Correlation between kidney sodium and potassium handling and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in children with hypertensive disorders. Pediatr Nephrol 2022; 37:633-641. [PMID: 34499251 PMCID: PMC8904647 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-021-05204-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2021] [Revised: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Urine sodium and potassium are used as surrogate markers for dietary consumption in adults with hypertension, but their role in youth with hypertension and their association with components of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) are incompletely characterized. Some individuals with hypertension may have an abnormal RAAS response to dietary sodium and potassium intake, though this is incompletely described. Our objective was to investigate if plasma renin activity and serum aldosterone are associated with urine sodium and potassium in youth referred for hypertensive disorders. METHODS This pilot study was a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from 44 youth evaluated for hypertensive disorders in a Hypertension Clinic. We recorded urine sodium and potassium concentrations normalized to urine creatinine, plasma renin activity, and serum aldosterone and calculated the sodium/potassium (UNaK) and aldosterone/renin ratios. We used multivariable generalized linear models to estimate the associations of renin and aldosterone with urine sodium and potassium. RESULTS Our cohort was diverse (37% non-Hispanic Black, 14% Hispanic), 66% were male, and median age was 15.3 years; 77% had obesity and 9% had a secondary etiology. Aldosterone was associated inversely with urine sodium/creatinine (β: -0.34, 95% CI -0.62 to -0.06) and UNaK (β: -0.09, 95% CI -0.16 to -0.03), and adjusted for estimated glomerular filtration rate and serum potassium. CONCLUSIONS Higher serum aldosterone levels, but not plasma renin activity, were associated with lower urine sodium/creatinine and UNaK at baseline in youth referred for hypertensive disorders. Further characterization of the RAAS could help define hypertension phenotypes and guide management. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as supplementary information.
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- Ella C Perrin
- Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Nephrology, Brenner Children's Hospital, Wake Forest School of Medicine, One Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC, 27157, USA. .,Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA. .,Department of Surgery-Hypertension and Vascular Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA. .,Center for Biomedical Informatics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
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Potter JC, Whiles SA, Miles CB, Whiles JB, Mitchell MA, Biederman BE, Dawoud FM, Breuel KF, Williamson GA, Picken MM, Polichnowski AJ. Salt-Sensitive Hypertension, Renal Injury, and Renal Vasodysfunction Associated With Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats Are Abolished in Consomic SS.BN1 Rats. J Am Heart Assoc 2021; 10:e020261. [PMID: 34689582 PMCID: PMC8751849 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.120.020261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Background Abnormal renal hemodynamic responses to salt‐loading are thought to contribute to salt‐sensitive (SS) hypertension. However, this is based largely on studies in anesthetized animals, and little data are available in conscious SS and salt‐resistant rats. Methods and Results We assessed arterial blood pressure, renal function, and renal blood flow during administration of a 0.4% NaCl and a high‐salt (4.0% NaCl) diet in conscious, chronically instrumented 10‐ to 14‐week‐old Dahl SS and consomic SS rats in which chromosome 1 from the salt‐resistant Brown‐Norway strain was introgressed into the genome of the SS strain (SS.BN1). Three weeks of high salt intake significantly increased blood pressure (20%) and exacerbated renal injury in SS rats. In contrast, the increase in blood pressure (5%) was similarly attenuated in Brown‐Norway and SS.BN1 rats, and both strains were completely protected against renal injury. In SS.BN1 rats, 1 week of high salt intake was associated with a significant decrease in renal vascular resistance (−8%) and increase in renal blood flow (15%). In contrast, renal vascular resistance failed to decrease, and renal blood flow remained unchanged in SS rats during high salt intake. Finally, urinary sodium excretion and glomerular filtration rate were similar between SS and SS.BN1 rats during 0.4% NaCl and high salt intake. Conclusions Our data support the concept that renal vasodysfunction contributes to blood pressure salt sensitivity in Dahl SS rats, and that genes on rat chromosome 1 play a major role in modulating renal hemodynamic responses to salt loading and salt‐induced hypertension.
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- Jacqueline C Potter
- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago IL
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- Department of Pathology Loyola University Medical Center Maywood IL
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences Quillen College of MedicineEast Tennessee State University Johnson City TN.,Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease and Immunity East Tennessee State University Johnson City TN
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Baek EJ, Kim S. Current Understanding of Pressure Natriuresis. Electrolyte Blood Press 2021; 19:38-45. [PMID: 35003284 PMCID: PMC8715224 DOI: 10.5049/ebp.2021.19.2.38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Pressure natriuresis refers to the concept that increased renal perfusion pressure leads to a decrease in tubular reabsorption of sodium and an increased sodium excretion. The set point of blood pressure is the point at which pressure natriuresis and extracellular fluid volume are in equilibrium. The term "abnormal pressure natriuresis" usually refers to the expected abnormal effect of a certain level of blood pressure on sodium excretion. Factors that cause abnormal pressure natriuresis are known. Sympathetic nerve system, genetic factors, and dietary factors may affect an increase in renal perfusion pressure. An increase in renal perfusion pressure increases renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (RIHP). Increased RIHP affects tubular reabsorption through alterations in tight junctional permeability to sodium in proximal tubules, redistribution of apical sodium transporters, and/or release of renal autacoids. Renal autocoids such as nitric oxide, prostaglandin E2, kinins, and angiotensin II may also regulate pressure natriuresis by acting directly on renal tubule sodium transport. In addition, inflammation and reactive oxygen species may mediate pressure natriuresis. Recently, the use of new drugs associated with pressure natriuretic mechanisms, such as angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor and sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors, has been consistently demonstrated to reduce mortality and hypertension-related complications. Therefore, the understanding of pressure natriuresis is gaining attention as an antihypertensive strategy. In this review, we provide a basic overview of pressure natriuresis to the target audience of nephrologists.
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- Eun Ji Baek
- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Bie P. Mechanisms of sodium balance: total body sodium, surrogate variables, and renal sodium excretion. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2018; 315:R945-R962. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00363.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The classical concepts of human sodium balance include 1) a total pool of Na+ of ≈4,200 mmol (total body sodium, TBS) distributed primarily in the extracellular fluid (ECV) and bone, 2) intake variations of 0.03 to ≈6 mmol·kg body mass−1·day−1, 3) asymptotic transitions between steady states with a halftime (T½) of 21 h, 4) changes in TBS driven by sodium intake measuring ≈1.3 day [ΔTBS/Δ(Na+ intake/day)], 5) adjustment of Na+ excretion to match any diet thus providing metabolic steady state, and 6) regulation of TBS via controlled excretion (90–95% renal) mediated by surrogate variables. The present focus areas include 1) uneven, nonosmotic distribution of increments in TBS primarily in “skin,” 2) long-term instability of TBS during constant Na+ intake, and 3) physiological regulation of renal Na+ excretion primarily by neurohumoral mechanisms dependent on ECV rather than arterial pressure. Under physiological conditions 1) the nonosmotic distribution of Na+ seems conceptually important, but quantitatively ill defined; 2) long-term variations in TBS represent significant deviations from steady state, but the importance is undetermined; and 3) the neurohumoral mechanisms of sodium homeostasis competing with pressure natriuresis are essential for systematic analysis of short-term and long-term regulation of TBS. Sodium homeostasis and blood pressure regulation are intimately related. Real progress is slow and will accelerate only through recognition of the present level of ignorance. Nonosmotic distribution of sodium, pressure natriuresis, and volume-mediated regulation of renal sodium excretion are essential intertwined concepts in need of clear definitions, conscious models, and future attention.
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- Peter Bie
- Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Blaustein MP. The pump, the exchanger, and the holy spirit: origins and 40-year evolution of ideas about the ouabain-Na + pump endocrine system. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2017; 314:C3-C26. [PMID: 28971835 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00196.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Two prescient 1953 publications set the stage for the elucidation of a novel endocrine system: Schatzmann's report that cardiotonic steroids (CTSs) are all Na+ pump inhibitors, and Szent-Gyorgi's suggestion that there is an endogenous "missing screw" in heart failure that CTSs like digoxin may replace. In 1977 I postulated that an endogenous Na+ pump inhibitor acts as a natriuretic hormone and simultaneously elevates blood pressure (BP) in salt-dependent hypertension. This hypothesis was based on the idea that excess renal salt retention promoted the secretion of a CTS-like hormone that inhibits renal Na+ pumps and salt reabsorption. The hormone also inhibits arterial Na+ pumps, elevates myocyte Na+ and promotes Na/Ca exchanger-mediated Ca2+ gain. This enhances vasoconstriction and arterial tone-the hallmark of hypertension. Here I describe how those ideas led to the discovery that the CTS-like hormone is endogenous ouabain (EO), a key factor in the pathogenesis of hypertension and heart failure. Seminal observations that underlie the still-emerging picture of the EO-Na+ pump endocrine system in the physiology and pathophysiology of multiple organ systems are summarized. Milestones include: 1) cloning the Na+ pump isoforms and physiological studies of mutated pumps in mice; 2) discovery that Na+ pumps are also EO-triggered signaling molecules; 3) demonstration that ouabain, but not digoxin, is hypertensinogenic; 4) elucidation of EO's roles in kidney development and cardiovascular and renal physiology and pathophysiology; 5) discovery of "brain ouabain", a component of a novel hypothalamic neuromodulatory pathway; and 6) finding that EO and its brain receptors modulate behavior and learning.
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- Mordecai P Blaustein
- Departments of Physiology and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland
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Clemmer JS, Pruett WA, Coleman TG, Hall JE, Hester RL. Mechanisms of blood pressure salt sensitivity: new insights from mathematical modeling. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2016; 312:R451-R466. [PMID: 27974315 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00353.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Mathematical modeling is an important tool for understanding quantitative relationships among components of complex physiological systems and for testing competing hypotheses. We used HumMod, a large physiological model, to test hypotheses of blood pressure (BP) salt sensitivity. Systemic hemodynamics, renal, and neurohormonal responses to chronic changes in salt intake were examined during normal renal function, fixed low or high plasma angiotensin II (ANG II) levels, bilateral renal artery stenosis, increased renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA), and decreased nephron numbers. Simulations were run for 4 wk at salt intakes ranging from 30 to 1,000 mmol/day. Reducing functional kidney mass or fixing ANG II increased salt sensitivity. Salt sensitivity, associated with inability of ANG II to respond to changes in salt intake, occurred with smaller changes in renal blood flow but greater changes in glomerular filtration rate, renal sodium reabsorption, and total peripheral resistance (TPR). However, clamping TPR at normal or high levels had no major effect on salt sensitivity. There were no clear relationships between BP salt sensitivity and renal vascular resistance or extracellular fluid volume. Our robust mathematical model of cardiovascular, renal, endocrine, and sympathetic nervous system physiology supports the hypothesis that specific types of kidney dysfunction, associated with impaired regulation of ANG II or increased tubular sodium reabsorption, contribute to BP salt sensitivity. However, increased preglomerular resistance, increased RSNA, or inability to decrease TPR does not appear to influence salt sensitivity. This model provides a platform for testing competing concepts of long-term BP control during changes in salt intake.
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- John S Clemmer
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Computational Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Computational Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Computational Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Computational Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Computational Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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Lohmeier TE, Pruett WA. Illogical Critiques of the Pressure Natriuresis Theory of Chronic Hypertension. Am J Hypertens 2016. [PMID: 28637272 DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpw076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Thomas E Lohmeier
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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Kurtz TW, DiCarlo SE, Morris RC. Logical Issues With the Pressure Natriuresis Theory of Chronic Hypertension. Am J Hypertens 2016. [PMID: 28637271 DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpw073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The term "abnormal pressure natriuresis" refers to a subnormal effect of a given level of blood pressure (BP) on sodium excretion. It is widely believed that abnormal pressure natriuresis causes an initial increase in BP to be sustained. We refer to this view as the "pressure natriuresis theory of chronic hypertension." The proponents of the theory contend that all forms of chronic hypertension are sustained by abnormal pressure natriuresis, irrespective of how hypertension is initiated. This theory would appear to follow from "the three laws of long-term arterial pressure regulation" stated by Guyton and Coleman more than 3 decades ago. These "laws" articulate the concept that for a given level of salt intake, the relationship between arterial pressure and sodium excretion determines the chronic level of BP. Here, we review and examine the recent assertion by Beard that these "laws" of long-term BP control amount to nothing more than a series of tautologies. Our analysis supports Beard's assertion, and also indicates that contemporary investigators often use tautological reasoning in support of the pressure natriuresis theory of chronic hypertension. Although the theory itself is not a tautology, it does not appear to be testable because it holds that abnormal pressure natriuresis causes salt-induced hypertension to be sustained through abnormal increases in cardiac output that are too small to be detected.
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- Theodore W Kurtz
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- John E Hall
- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
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Morris RC, Schmidlin O, Sebastian A, Tanaka M, Kurtz TW. Vasodysfunction That Involves Renal Vasodysfunction, Not Abnormally Increased Renal Retention of Sodium, Accounts for the Initiation of Salt-Induced Hypertension. Circulation 2016; 133:881-93. [PMID: 26927006 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.115.017923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- R Curtis Morris
- From the Departments of Medicine (R.C.M., O.S., A.S., M.T.) and Laboratory Medicine (T.W.K.), University of California, San Francisco.
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- From the Departments of Medicine (R.C.M., O.S., A.S., M.T.) and Laboratory Medicine (T.W.K.), University of California, San Francisco
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- From the Departments of Medicine (R.C.M., O.S., A.S., M.T.) and Laboratory Medicine (T.W.K.), University of California, San Francisco
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- From the Departments of Medicine (R.C.M., O.S., A.S., M.T.) and Laboratory Medicine (T.W.K.), University of California, San Francisco
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- From the Departments of Medicine (R.C.M., O.S., A.S., M.T.) and Laboratory Medicine (T.W.K.), University of California, San Francisco.
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Evans RG, Bie P. Role of the kidney in the pathogenesis of hypertension: time for a neo-Guytonian paradigm or a paradigm shift? Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2015; 310:R217-29. [PMID: 26582636 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00254.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The "Guytonian paradigm" places the direct effect of arterial pressure, on renal excretion of salt and water, at the center of long-term control of blood pressure, and thus the pathogenesis of hypertension. It originated in the sixties and remains influential within the field of hypertension research. However, the concept of one central long-term feedback loop, through which arterial pressure is maintained by its influence on renal function, has been questioned. Furthermore, some concepts in the paradigm are undermined by experimental observations. For example, volume retention and increased cardiac output induced by high salt intake do not necessarily lead to increased arterial pressure. Indeed, in multiple models of salt-sensitive hypertension the major abnormality appears to be failure of the vasodilator response to increased cardiac output, seen in salt-resistant animals, rather than an increase in cardiac output itself. There is also evidence that renal control of extracellular fluid volume is driven chiefly by volume-dependent neurohumoral control mechanisms rather than through direct or indirect effects of changes in arterial pressure, compatible with the concept that renal sodium excretion is controlled by parallel actions of different feedback systems, including hormones, reflexes, and renal arterial pressure. Moreover, we still do not fully understand the sequence of events underlying the phenomenon of "whole body autoregulation." Thus the events by which volume retention may develop to hypertension characterized by increased peripheral resistance remain enigmatic. Finally, by definition, animal models of hypertension are not "essential hypertension;" progress in our understanding of essential hypertension depends on new results on system functions in patients.
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- Roger G Evans
- Cardiovascular Disease Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia; and
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- Cardiovascular Disease Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia; and Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Carey RM, Padia SH. Role of angiotensin AT(2) receptors in natriuresis: Intrarenal mechanisms and therapeutic potential. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2014; 40:527-34. [PMID: 23336117 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1681.12059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2012] [Revised: 01/16/2013] [Accepted: 01/16/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The renin-angiotensin system is a coordinated hormonal cascade critical for the regulation of blood pressure (BP) and kidney function. Angiotensin (Ang) II, the major angiotensin effector peptide, binds to two major receptors, namely AT1 and AT2 receptors. The AT1 receptors engender antinatriuresis and raise BP, whereas AT2 receptors oppose these effects, inducing natriuresis and reducing BP. There is high AT2 receptor expression in the adult kidney, especially in the proximal tubule. In AT2 receptor-null mice, long-term AngII infusion results in pressor and antinatriuretic hypersensivivity compared with responses in wild-type mice. The major endogenous receptor ligand for AT2 receptor-mediated natriuretic responses appears to be des-aspartyl(1) -AngII (AngIII) instead of AngII. Recent studies have demonstrated that AngII requires metabolism to AngIII by aminopeptidase A to induce natriuresis and that inhibition of aminopeptidase N increases intrarenal AngIII and augments AngIII-induced natriuresis. The renal dopaminergic system is another important natriuretic pathway. Renal proximal tubule the D1 and D5 receptor subtypes (D1 -like receptors (D1LIKE R)) control approximately 50% of basal sodium excretion. Recently, we have found that natriuresis induced by proximal tubule D1LIKE R requires AT2 receptor activation and that D1LIKE R stimulation induces recruitment of AT2 receptors to the apical plasma membrane via a cAMP-dependent mechanism. Initial studies using the potent AT2 receptor non-peptide agonist Compound 21 demonstrate natriuresis in both the presence and absence of AT1 receptor blockade, indicating the therapeutic potential of this compound in fluid-retaining states and hypertension.
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- Robert M Carey
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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Iliescu R, Lohmeier TE. Lowering of blood pressure during chronic suppression of central sympathetic outflow: insight from computer simulations. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2009; 37:e24-33. [PMID: 19769610 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2009.05291.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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1. Chronic electrical stimulation of the carotid sinuses has provided unique insight into the mechanisms that cause sustained reductions in blood pressure during chronic suppression of central sympathetic outflow. 2. Because renal denervation does not abolish the sustained fall in arterial pressure in response to baroreflex activation, this observation has seemingly challenged the concept that the kidneys play a critical role in the long-term control of arterial pressure during chronic changes in sympathetic activity. The aim of the present study was to use computer simulations to provide a more comprehensive understanding of physiological mechanisms that mediate sustained reductions in arterial pressure during prolonged baroreflex-mediated suppression of central sympathetic outflow. 3. Physiological responses to baroreflex activation under different conditions were simulated by an established mathematical model of human physiology (QHP2008; see Supporting Information (Appendix S1) provided in the online version of this article and/or http://groups.google.com/group/modelingworkshop). The model closely reproduced empirical data, providing important validation of its accuracy. 4. The simulations indicated that baroreflex-mediated suppression of renal sympathetic nerve activity does chronically increase renal excretory function but that, in addition, hormonal and haemodynamic mechanisms also contribute to this natriuretic response. The contribution of these redundant natriuretic mechanisms to the chronic lowering of blood pressure is of increased importance when suppression of renal adrenergic activity is prevented, such as after renal denervation. Activation of these redundant natriuretic mechanisms occurs at the expense of excessive fluid retention. 5. More broadly, the present study illustrates the value of numerical simulations in elucidating physiological mechanisms that are not obvious intuitively and, in some cases, not readily testable in experimental studies.
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- Radu Iliescu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505, USA
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Liu KL. REGULATION OF RENAL MEDULLARY CIRCULATION BY THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM IN GENETICALLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2009; 36:455-61. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2009.05153.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Montani JP, Van Vliet BN. Commentary on ‘Current computational models do not reveal the importance of the nervous system in long-term control of arterial pressure’. Exp Physiol 2009; 94:396-7. [DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2008.046524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Montani JP, Van Vliet BN. Understanding the contribution of Guyton's large circulatory model to long-term control of arterial pressure. Exp Physiol 2009; 94:382-8. [DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2008.043299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Fink GD. Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture. Sympathetic activity, vascular capacitance, and long-term regulation of arterial pressure. Hypertension 2008; 53:307-12. [PMID: 19114645 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.108.119990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Gregory D Fink
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, B440 Life Sciences Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1317, USA.
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Lohmeier TE, Hildebrandt DA, Dwyer TM, Barrett AM, Irwin ED, Rossing MA, Kieval RS. Renal denervation does not abolish sustained baroreflex-mediated reductions in arterial pressure. Hypertension 2006; 49:373-9. [PMID: 17159083 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000253507.56499.bb] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Recent studies indicate that suppression of renal sympathetic nerve activity and attendant increments in renal excretory function are sustained baroreflex-mediated responses in hypertensive animals. Given the central role of the kidneys in long-term regulation of arterial pressure, we hypothesized that the chronic blood pressure-lowering effects of the baroreflex are critically dependent on intact renal innervation. This hypothesis was tested in 6 dogs by bilaterally activating the carotid baroreflex electrically for 7 days before and after bilateral renal denervation. Before renal denervation, control values for mean arterial pressure and plasma norepinephrine concentration were 95+/-2 mm Hg and 96+/-12 pg/mL, respectively. During day 1 of baroreflex activation, mean arterial pressure decreased 13+/-1 mm Hg, and there was modest sodium retention. Daily sodium balance was subsequently restored, but reductions in mean arterial pressure were sustained throughout the 7 days of baroreflex activation. Activation of the baroreflex was associated with sustained decreases in plasma norepinephrine concentration ( approximately 50%) and plasma renin activity (30% to 40%). All of the values returned to control levels during a 7-day recovery period. Two weeks after renal denervation, control values for mean arterial pressure, plasma norepinephrine concentration, plasma renin activity, and sodium excretion were comparable to those measured when the renal nerves were intact. Moreover, after renal denervation, all of the responses to activation of the baroreflex were similar to those observed before renal denervation. These findings demonstrate that the presence of the renal nerves is not an obligate requirement for achieving long-term reductions in arterial pressure during prolonged activation of the baroreflex.
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- Thomas E Lohmeier
- Department of Physiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State St, Jackson, MS 39216-4505, USA.
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Mozaffari MS, Wyss JM. Dietary NaCl-induced hypertension in uninephrectomized Wistar-Kyoto rats: role of kidney function. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1999; 33:814-21. [PMID: 10226871 DOI: 10.1097/00005344-199905000-00020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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This study tests the hypothesis that combination of unilateral nephrectomy and a high sodium chloride (NaCl) diet causes hypertension in otherwise normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and that this hypertensive response is due to a deficit in the remaining kidney's function. Four-week-old male WKY rats underwent either a right nephrectomy or a sham operation. Two weeks later, the groups either were switched to a high (8%) NaCl diet or remained on the basal (0.72%) NaCl diet. At ages 3 and 6 months, hemodynamic parameters and renal excretory responses were measured, in the conscious animals, before and after administration of a 30-min isotonic saline challenge (5% of body weight). The high-NaCl diet increased arterial pressure in the uninephrectomized but not in sham-operated rats; the development of hypertension was associated with increases in baseline renal excretion of fluid and sodium and diuretic and natriuretic responses to the isotonic saline challenge. The increased diuresis and natriuresis in the hypertensive WKY rats were related to a significant reduction in renal tubular reabsorption and an associated increase in fractional excretion of fluid and sodium. The high-NaCl diet also increased renal excretion of fluid and sodium in the sham-operated rats; however, the uninephrectomized animals excreted much more fluid and sodium than did sham-operated rats. These data suggest that the combination of unilateral nephrectomy and dietary NaCl excess causes hypertension in the normotensive WKY rats, but the hypertensive response is not likely due to a functional deficit in the remaining kidney.
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- M S Mozaffari
- Department of Oral Biology and Maxillofacial Pathology, Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry, Augusta, USA
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Blaine EH, Cunningham JT, Hasser EM, Dale WE, Li Q, Sullivan M. Angiotensin hypertension. CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY. SUPPLEMENT 1998; 25:S16-20. [PMID: 9809187 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02295.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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1. One of the most important issues in the field of hypertension research centres on the therapeutic use of inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). Inhibitors of the RAS have potent anti-hypertensive effects, even in experimental models of hypertension and in human essential hypertension, where the activity of the peripheral RAS is low or normal. 2. It is suggested here that determining the mechanisms by which activation of the peripheral RAS produces hypertension will help us determine the anti-hypertensive effects of these inhibitors in low/normal renin-angiotensin hypertension. 3. Three hypotheses describing the hypertensive effects of angiotensin are discussed. The first hypothesis involves the direct vasoconstrictor effects of angiotensin. The second hypothesis suggests that chronic angiotensin produces hypertension by increasing Na+ reabsorption leading to volume expansion and hypertension. The final hypothesis suggests that, in angiotensin-induced hypertension, the increased Na+ reabsorption is not associated with volume expansion but, rather, is associated with an increase in vascular tone resulting from an interaction between angiotensin and the nervous system. 4. It is also hypothesized that the interaction between angiotensin and the nervous system produces a differential activation of sympathetic outflow that spares the kidney.
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- E H Blaine
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research, Department of Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
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Ohman KP, Karlberg BE. Circulating plasma prekallikrein and tissue kallikrein in normotensive and hypertensive humans: effects of angiotensin II infusion. Clin Exp Hypertens 1998; 20:313-28. [PMID: 9605385 DOI: 10.3109/10641969809052124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Kinins lower blood pressure but the stimuli leading to kinin generation and their origin are less well known. We administered angiotensin II in graded infusion doses to patients with primary hypertension and normotensive controls to study the effects of on circulating kallikreins. Angiotensin II infusion did not significantly alter plasma prekallikrein or tissue kallikrein levels and the plasma levels and their changes did not correlate with blood pressure levels or changes. In the normotensive group prekallikrein levels and renin activity correlated negatively with urinary sodium and chloride excretion during basal conditions and partially during the infusion. U-tissue kallikrein concentration increased in the normotensive group. Thus, acute elevation of blood pressure induced by angiotensin II does not activate the circulating kallikrein-kinin systems. Data rather indicate that the circulating kallikrein-kinin systems may be related to alterations in volume and sodium balance and that these mechanisms may be altered in primary hypertension.
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- K P Ohman
- Department of Medicine and Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
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Osborn JL, Camara AK. Renal neurogenic mediation of intracerebroventricular angiotensin II hypertension in rats raised on high sodium chloride diet. Hypertension 1997; 30:331-6. [PMID: 9314413 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.30.3.331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Chronic elevation of sodium intake may affect the sensitivity of the central nervous system to intracerebroventricular (I.C.V.) angiotensin II (Ang II) infusion. Experiments were conducted to determine the influence of raising Sprague-Dawley rats from 2 to 3 weeks of age on low (5.0 mmol/L per kg food), normal (50 mmol/L per kg food), or high (250 mmol/L per kg food) NaCl diets on renal and cardiovascular responses to low-dose I.C.V. Ang II infusion. At 12 weeks of age, Sprague-Dawley rats were instrumented for chronic study, including brain lateral ventricular cannulation. Artificial cerebrospinal fluid was infused (0.25 microL/min I.C.V.) during control and recovery, whereas Ang II (20 ng/min) was infused for 5 days. During the experiment, respective sodium intakes were infused intravenously over 24 hours. In rats fed high sodium, control mean arterial pressure was 115+/-2 mm Hg and increased to 132+/-4 mm Hg by day 5 of I.C.V. Ang II infusion. This increase in arterial pressure was associated with significant (P<.05) decreases in sodium excretion, leading to the retention of 5.4+/-0.6 mmol/L total sodium over the 5 days of Ang II infusion. In rats raised on low and normal sodium intakes from weaning and in 10-week-old rats exposed to a high sodium diet for only 2 weeks, arterial pressure was not increased and sodium was not retained during I.C.V. Ang II infusion at 20 ng/min. In rats raised on the high sodium diet, bilateral renal denervation abolished the arterial hypertension and reduced the sodium retention over 5 days of I.C.V. Ang II infusion. Thus, chronic elevation of sodium intake increases the hypertensive response to low-dose I.C.V. Ang II infusion, which is dependent on intact renal nerves. We conclude that elevated postnatal NaCl intake enhances the pressor sensitivity of the brain to Ang II.
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- J L Osborn
- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226-0509, USA
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Borghi C, Boschi S, Costa FV, Bacchelli S, Degli Esposti D, Immordino V, Piccoli M, Ambrosioni F. Low dose of ACE-inhibitor enhances sodium excretion in volume expanded patients with borderline hypertension. Blood Press 1996; 5:105-12. [PMID: 8860099 DOI: 10.3109/08037059609062116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The purpose of the present study was to separately investigate the effects of two different dosages of captopril on pressor, vascular and humoral response to acute extracellular volume expansion in patients with borderline hypertension (BHT). Thirty-five patients were randomly allocated in two groups undergoing acute saline infusion (0.40 ml/min/kg for 45 min and 0.15 ml/min/kg for 75 min)before and after a 7-day period of treatment with either placebo or captopril at the dose of 12.5 (LD-CAP) or 50 mg (HD-CAP) twice a day. At baseline the effects of LD-CAP were limited to an increase in PRA and to a decrease in plasma aldosterone whereas HD-CAP decreased systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP), forearm vascular resistance (FVR) and increased venous distensibility (VV(30)) as well. After saline loading patients treated with HD-CAP showed an increase in SBP, DBP not observed in patients allocated to LD-CAP. Urinary sodium excretion in response to NaCl loading was selectively enhanced by LD-CAP (+25%) whereas HD-CAP did not (+6.3%). The present data suggest that low-doses of ACE-inhibitors acting through a selective blockade of RAA not associated with hemodynamic changes can enhance the natriuretic response to acute volume expansion in borderline hypertensives.
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- C Borghi
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Bologna, Italy
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Lohmeier TE, Mizelle HL, Reinhart GA. Role of atrial natriuretic peptide in long-term volume homeostasis. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1995; 22:55-61. [PMID: 7768035 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1995.tb01919.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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1. Long-term volume homeostasis is linked very closely to long-term arterial pressure control through the renal-body fluid feedback mechanism. A key feature of this control system is the ability of the kidneys to respond to changes in arterial pressure by altering renal excretion of salt and water, often referred to as renal-pressure natriuresis. 2. Quantitative studies indicate that ANP secretion is relatively sensitive to changes in atrial pressure and that the rate of hormonal secretion does not adapt to continuous long-term stimulation. 3. Under normal conditions, the renal-body fluid feedback mechanism for arterial pressure control is very efficient in minimizing changes in body fluid volumes during alterations in sodium intake. Therefore, only small changes in atrial pressure and ANP secretion occur. Alterations in plasma ANP concentration within physiological levels have little effect on renal-pressure natriuresis and, therefore, have little impact on volume homeostasis. 4. When the renal-body fluid feedback mechanism for arterial pressure control is impaired and body fluid volumes are elevated, such as in heart failure, large increases in atrial pressure and ANP secretion occur. The resultant pathophysiological plasma levels of ANP exert sustained natriuretic effects and chronically shift renal-pressure natriuresis to lower arterial pressures. In the absence of this chronic effect of ANP on renal-pressure natriuresis, reduced arterial pressure in compensated heart failure would result in protracted retention of salt and water and additional increments in body fluid volumes.
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- T E Lohmeier
- University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Jackson 39216-4505, USA
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Majima M, Mizogami S, Kuribayashi Y, Katori M, Oh-ishi S. Hypertension induced by a nonpressor dose of angiotensin II in kininogen-deficient rats. Hypertension 1994; 24:111-9. [PMID: 8020999 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.24.1.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Brown Norway Katholiek rats with very low levels of plasma kininogens excreted a much smaller amount of kinin in the urine than normal rats of the same strain. The systolic blood pressure of 7-week-old kininogen-deficient rats (132 +/- 2 mmHg, n = 7) was not different from that of normal rats. Angiotensin II (Ang II) (20 micrograms/d SC) from 7 weeks of age for 2 weeks with a micro-osmotic pump caused significant increases in blood pressure (181 +/- 5 mm Hg, n = 7, 9 weeks old) in the deficient rats, although the same treatment induced no blood pressure increase in the normal rats. Also during this period, the deficient rats had significantly higher heart rates, tended to excrete less urinary sodium, and showed significantly higher sodium levels in serum, erythrocytes, and cerebrospinal fluid compared with the normal rats. Ang II increased urinary excretion of aldosterone in both deficient and normal rats (P < .05). Spironolactone treatment (50 mg/kg per day) for 7 days in deficient rats restored blood pressure and heart rate to normal levels and significantly reduced sodium levels in erythrocytes and cerebrospinal fluid. Subcutaneous infusion of bovine low-molecular-weight kininogen with an osmotic pump in Ang II-treated deficient rats induced significant reductions in blood pressure, heart rate, and erythrocyte sodium levels. By contrast, subcutaneous infusion of the bradykinin antagonist Hoe 140 in Ang II-treated normal rats induced a hypertensive response in parallel with significant increases in heart rate and erythrocyte sodium level. These results suggest that the lack of kinin generation observed in the kininogen-deficient rats may cause the hypertensive response during the administration of a nonpressor dose of Ang II mainly through sodium retention probably caused by aldosterone release.
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- M Majima
- Department of Pharmacology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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Macari D, Whitebread S, Cumin F, De Gasparo M, Levens N. Renal actions of the angiotensin AT2 receptor ligands CGP 42112 and PD 123319 after blockade of the renin-angiotensin system. Eur J Pharmacol 1994; 259:27-36. [PMID: 7957590 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(94)90153-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the selective angiotensin AT2 receptor ligands, CGP 42112B (Nic-Tyr-(N alpha-benzoyloxycarbonyl-Arg)Lys-His-Pro-Ile-OH) and PD 123319 ((s)-1-[[4-(dimethylamino)-3-methyl-phenyl]methyl]-5-(diphenylacetyl+ ++)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-imidazo[4,5-c]-pyridine-6-carboxylic acid) are agonists at angiotensin receptors influencing blood pressure and renal function in the enalaprilat-treated anesthetized rat. The agonist angiotensin II significantly increased blood pressure and renal vascular resistance. Glomerular filtration rate was unchanged by angiotensin II. Effective renal blood flow decreased significantly in response to angiotensin II leading to a significant increase in filtration fraction. Angiotensin II did not induce significant change in urinary potassium excretion or free water formation but significantly increased both urine volume and urinary sodium excretion. At doses up to 3 orders of magnitude greater than angiotensin II, CGP 42112B also significantly increased blood pressure, filtration fraction, glomerular filtration rate, urine volume and urinary sodium excretion, but did not significantly affect effective renal blood flow or renal vascular resistance. The selective angiotensin AT2 receptor ligand PD 123319 had no significant effects on blood pressure nor any measured parameter of renal function. The changes in blood pressure and renal function produced by angiotensin II and CGP 42112B could be completely blocked by the angiotensin AT1 receptor antagonist losartan. The results therefore only support a role for angiotensin AT1 receptors and not angiotensin AT2 receptors in the control of renal function in the rat and demonstrate that at high doses the angiotensin AT2 selective ligand CGP 42112B behaves as an agonist at angiotensin AT1 receptors.
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- D Macari
- Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
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Hall JE. Louis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture. Renal and cardiovascular mechanisms of hypertension in obesity. Hypertension 1994; 23:381-94. [PMID: 8125566 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.23.3.381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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In all forms of hypertension, including human essential hypertension, pressure natriuresis is reset to higher blood pressures. Because human essential hypertension is a heterogeneous disease, it is likely that there are multiple neurohumoral and intrarenal causes of abnormal pressure natriuresis and increased blood pressure. Weight gain is recognized to be an important contributor to essential hypertension, although the mechanisms that link obesity with altered renal function and high blood pressure have not been fully elucidated. In obese dogs and humans, the shift of pressure natriuresis to higher blood pressures appears to be due mainly to increased tubular reabsorption, as glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow are increased compared with normal. Multiple causes of increased tubular reabsorption and hypertension in obesity have been postulated, including insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, activation of the sympathetic nervous and renin-angiotensin systems, and physical changes within the kidney itself. Support for the insulin resistance-hyperinsulinemia link between obesity and hypertension has been inferred mainly from acute and epidemiologic studies showing a correlation between insulin and blood pressure. Recent studies suggest that chronic hyperinsulinemia, comparable to that found in obesity, cannot account for obesity hypertension in dogs or humans. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system may play a role in obesity-induced hypertension, and there is evidence for a role of altered intrarenal physical forces caused by histological changes within the renal medulla. The quantitative importance of each of these abnormalities in altering renal function and raising blood pressure in obesity remains to be determined but is an important area of research for understanding human essential hypertension.
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- J E Hall
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216-4505
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