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van Vonderen IK, Wolfswinkel J, van den Ingh TSGAM, Mol JA, Rijnberk A, Kooistra HS. Urinary aquaporin-2 excretion in dogs: a marker for collecting duct responsiveness to vasopressin. Domest Anim Endocrinol 2004; 27:141-53. [PMID: 15219933 DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2004.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2004] [Accepted: 03/21/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In humans, the urinary aquaporin-2 (U-AQP2) excretion closely parallels changes in vasopressin (VP) action and has been proposed as a marker for collecting duct responsiveness to VP. This report describes the development of a radioimmunoassay for the measurement of U-AQP2 excretion in dogs. In addition, the localization of AQP2 in the canine kidney was investigated by immunohistochemistry. Basal U-AQP2 excretion was highly variable among healthy dogs. Two hours after oral water loading, the mean U-AQP2/creatinine ratio decreased significantly from (231 +/- 30) x 10(-9) to (60 +/- 15) x 10(-9) (P = 0.01), while the median plasma VP concentration decreased from 4.2 pmol/l (range 2.2-4.8 pmol/l) to 1.2 pmol/l (range 1.0-1.9 pmol/l). Subsequent intravenous administration of desmopressin led to a significantly increased mean U-AQP2/creatinine ratio of (258 +/- 56) x 10(-9) (P = 0.01). Two hours of intravenous hypertonic saline infusion (20% NaCl, 0.03 ml/kg body weight/min) significantly increased the mean U-AQP2/creatinine ratio from (86 +/- 6) x 10(-9) to (145 +/- 23) x 10(-9) (P = 0.045), while the median plasma VP concentration increased significantly from 2.2 pmol/l (range 1.1-6.3 pmol/l) to 17.1 pmol/l (range 8.4-67 pmol/l) (P < 0.001). Immunohistochemistry revealed extensive labeling for AQP2 in the kidney collecting duct cells, predominantly localized in the apical and subapical region. As in humans, U-AQP2 excretion in dogs closely reflects changes in VP exposure. Urinary AQP2 excretion may become a diagnostic tool in dogs for the differentiation of polyuric conditions such as (partial) central or nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, primary polydipsia, and inappropriate VP release.
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- I K van Vonderen
- Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.154, Yalelaan 8, 3508 TD, The Netherlands
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Thongboonkerd V, Klein JB, Pierce WM, Jevans AW, Arthur JM. Sodium loading changes urinary protein excretion: a proteomic analysis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2003; 284:F1155-63. [PMID: 12582004 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00140.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Plasma sodium concentration is maintained even when sodium intake is altered. Sodium homeostasis may involve changes in renal tubular protein expression that are reflected in the urine. We used proteomic analysis to investigate changes in urinary protein excretion in response to acute sodium loading. Rats were given deionized water followed by hypertonic (2.7%) saline for 28 h each. Urinary protein expression was determined during the final 4 h of each treatment. Acute sodium loading increased urinary sodium excretion (4.53 +/- 1.74 vs. 1.70 +/- 0.27 mmol/day, P = 0.029). Urinary proteins were separated by two-dimensional PAGE and visualized by Sypro ruby staining. Differentially expressed proteins were identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry followed by peptide mass fingerprinting. The abundance of a total of 45 protein components was changed after acute sodium loading. Neutral endopeptidase, solute carrier family 3, meprin 1alpha, diphor-1, chaperone heat shock protein 72, vacuolar H(+)-ATPase, ezrin, ezrin/radixin/moesin-binding protein, glutamine synthetase, guanine nucleotide-binding protein, Rho GDI-1, and chloride intracellular channel protein 1 were decreased, whereas albumin and alpha-2u globulin were increased. Some of these proteins have previously been shown to be associated with tubular transport. These data indicate that alterations in the excretion of several urinary proteins occur during acute sodium loading.
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- Visith Thongboonkerd
- Core Proteomics Laboratory, Kidney Disease Program, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
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Pedersen RS, Bentzen H, Bech JN, Nyvad O, Pedersen EB. Urinary aquaporin-2 in healthy humans and patients with liver cirrhosis and chronic heart failure during baseline conditions and after acute water load. Kidney Int 2003; 63:1417-25. [PMID: 12631357 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2003.00858.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients with liver cirrhosis and chronic heart failure (CHF) have a reduced capacity to excrete water. Studies in healthy humans have shown that an acute water load reduces the excretion of aquaporin-2 in urine (u-AQP-2). We wanted to test the hypothesis that an acute water load reduces u-AQP-2 less in patients with liver cirrhosis or CHF than in healthy humans. METHODS Fourteen healthy subjects, 14 patients with liver cirrhosis, and 14 patients with CHF were given an oral water load of 20 mL/kg. Urine was collected every 30 minutes for 4 hours for analysis of u-AQP-2. Blood samples were drawn at the beginning and at the end of the study for analysis of arginine vasopressin (AVP). u-AQP-2 was determined by radioimmunoassay. RESULTS During the study period, urinary output was 22.8% higher than water intake in the healthy controls and increased 14-fold from baseline, but in patients with liver cirrhosis and CHF urinary output was 14% and 24% less than the intake, while urinary output increased 7- and 19-fold from baseline, respectively. u-AQP2 decreased significantly more in patients with CHF (39%) than in healthy controls (17%) but it was unchanged in those with liver cirrhosis. AVP decreased 46% in patients with CHF, but was unchanged in healthy controls and those with liver cirrhosis. A 24-hour urinary excretion of AQP-2 was significantly elevated in patients with CHF (median, 25.7 nmol/mol creatinine) compared to healthy controls (15.7 nmol/mol creatinine) and those with liver cirrhosis (17 nmol/mol creatinine). CONCLUSION The excretion of AQP-2 in urine is abnormal both in liver cirrhosis in which we find less suppression of u-AQP2 by an acute water load and in CHF in which we find a high baseline level and an exaggerated suppression of u-AQP2 by an acute water load.
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Ishikawa SE, Schrier RW. Pathophysiological roles of arginine vasopressin and aquaporin-2 in impaired water excretion. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2003; 58:1-17. [PMID: 12519405 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01647.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- San-E Ishikawa
- Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical School Omiya Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
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Umenishi F, Summer SN, Cadnapaphornchai M, Schrier RW. Comparison of three methods to quantify urinary aquaporin-2 protein. Kidney Int 2002; 62:2288-93. [PMID: 12427158 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2002.00686.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 (AQP2) is measurable, and is regulated by renal vasopressin action in the principal cells of the collecting duct. To date, two methods [radioimmunoassay (RIA) and quantitative immunoblot analysis (IB)] have been used for quantitation of urinary AQP2 protein. However, the actual amount of urinary AQP2 measured has not been directly compared by the RIA and IB. Recently, we have established an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for quantitation of urinary AQP2. The purpose of our current study was to compare three different immunoassay methods for measurement of urinary AQP2. METHODS After overnight dehydration, five normal subjects ingested an oral water load (20 mL/kg). Urine was collected at 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 hours after oral water loading. Urinary AQP2 protein was quantitated in each sample by using the RIA, IB, and ELISA, and the correlation coefficients were compared among three different methods. RESULTS Values of urinary AQP2 at 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 hours after oral water loading for RIA, IB, and ELISA were, respectively (fmol/mg creatinine): 0 h: 266 +/- 28, 405 +/- 74, 294 +/- 41; 1 h: 159 +/- 59, 267 +/- 147, 195 +/- 95; 2 h: 48 +/- 17, 19 +/- 10, 38 +/- 18; 3 h: 79 +/- 18, 70 +/- 24, 80 +/- 15; 4 h: 147 +/- 21, 161 +/- 31, 136 +/- 15. All values were shown as means +/- SEM. There was a significant positive correlation between: the IB and ELISA (r = 0.91, P < 0.0001); the IB and RIA (r = 0.75, P < 0.0001); and the RIA and ELISA (r = 0.67, P < 0.0002). The correlation between the IB and ELISA was therefore the best. Also, urinary AQP2 was positively correlated with urine osmolality among all three methods. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that the newly developed IB and ELISA methods are useful for measurement of urinary AQP2 and have an excellent correlation.
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- Fuminori Umenishi
- Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA.
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Filippella M, Cappabianca P, Cavallo LM, Faggiano A, Lombardi G, de DE, Colao A. Very delayed hyponatremia after surgery and radiotherapy for a pituitary macroadenoma. J Endocrinol Invest 2002; 25:163-8. [PMID: 11929088 DOI: 10.1007/bf03343981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Severe hyponatremia (118 mmol/l) with natriuresis, consistent with cerebral salt wasting syndrome (CSWS), occurred 38 days after transsphenoidal surgery in a 59-year-old woman affected by a pituitary non-functioning macroadenoma. From the 35th day after surgery, she showed progressive polyuria, hypotension and hyponatremia associated with natriuresis, decreased plasma and increased urinary osmolality. The clinical examination revealed signs of dehydration and gradual decline in the level of consciousness. The anterior pituitary function was normal due to appropriate replacement of thyroid and adrenal axis. The patient was treated with saline administration until normal natremia and water balance were restored and neurological symptoms had completely disappeared. This case focuses on the unusually prolonged time of development of post-surgery hyponatremia, despite delayed symptomatic hyponatremia being reported to commonly occur 7 days after transsphenoidal surgery. Therefore, we would advise not to limit the periodic follow-up of the hydroelectrolytic balance to the first two weeks after surgery, but to prolong it until after discharge from hospital. In fact, an early diagnosis is of great importance to prevent permanent neurological damage or death. Since CSWS and syndrome of inappropriate secretion of ADH, the two disorders alternatively imputed to generate post-surgical hyponatremia, are characterized by different pathogenic mechanisms and require opposing therapeutic approaches, the occurrence of extracellular volume dilution or of increased sodium renal loss should be carefully investigated. The evidences in favor of CSWS, the possible mechanisms behind the syndrome and diagnosis and management of patients with post-transsphenoidal surgery CSWS are discussed.
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- M Filippella
- Department of Molecular and Clinical Endocrinology and Oncology, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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Saito T, Higashiyama M, Nagasaka S, Sasaki S, Saito T, Ishikawa SE. Role of aquaporin-2 gene expression in hyponatremic rats with chronic vasopressin-induced antidiuresis. Kidney Int 2001; 60:1266-76. [PMID: 11576341 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.00965.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND In a state of chronic arginine vasopressin (AVP) excess, the action of antidiuresis has been attenuated, resulting in some water diuresis. This state has been termed an "AVP escape" phenomenon. The present study was designed to determine what mechanisms underlie this attenuation in renal concentrating ability, which is found in chronic AVP excess, both in the presence and absence of volume expansion. METHODS Two groups of experimental rats were established. One group received solid chow with water ad libitum. The second group received chow, which was offered as a liquid diet. Both groups received subcutaneous administration of 1-deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (dDAVP) at 5 ng/h for the entire observation period of one week. Over the course of the observation period, tissue levels of aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) mRNA and protein were measured. Levels of AVP V2 receptor were monitored, both by measuring mRNA levels and by ligand-binding studies using [3H]AVP. Tissue levels of cAMP also were determined. RESULTS Experimental rats with the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) had severe hyponatremia below 120 mmol/L, and impaired urinary concentrating ability, during the seven-day observation period. In contrast, the dDAVP-excess rats, given solid chow, maintained maximally concentrated urine and normal levels of serum sodium. The down-regulation of AVP V2 receptor function was comparable in the two groups. The maximal binding capacity (Bmax) fell to the nadir on day 2 and was thereafter suppressed at approximately 60% of control rats during the experiment. Up-regulation of AQP-2 mRNA expression was found, but this up-regulation was significantly less in the SIADH rats compared with the dDAVP-excess rats (153.5 +/- 29.8% vs. 323.7 +/- 23.8% on day 7, P < 0.05). This differential response between these two groups was affirmed by measured differences in AQP-2 protein levels, both in tissue and in urinary excretion. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that the attenuated regulation of the AQP-2 gene leads to the decrease in urinary concentrating ability in the experimental SIADH rats, suffering from hypervolemic state, compared with the normonatremic rats receiving AVP. Either hypervolemia or hypotonicity may diminish the post-receptor signaling of AVP in renal collecting duct cells, under the chronic AVP excess state found in SIADH.
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- T Saito
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
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Knepper MA, Masilamani S. Targeted proteomics in the kidney using ensembles of antibodies. ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 2001; 173:11-21. [PMID: 11678722 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201x.2001.00880.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Building on extensive physiological characterization of sodium transport mechanisms along the renal tubule over the past 30 years, complementary DNAs for almost all of the major transporters and channels responsible for renal tubular sodium reabsorption have been cloned over the past 10 years. The consequence is the generation of a broad range of cDNA and antibody probes which can be used to investigate physiological mechanisms on a molecular level. An ensemble of such probes can be exploited for comprehensive analysis of integrative physiological processes, approaches which are referred to as 'physiological genomics' or 'physiological proteomics'. In this review, we describe a targeted proteomic approach to comprehensive analysis of sodium transporter and water channel protein abundance along the renal tubule using an ensemble of rabbit polyclonal antibodies directed to the major sodium transporters and water channels expressed in each renal tubule segment. We discuss preparation and characterization of the antibodies, strategies for quantification of transporter protein abundance, and provide examples of the application of antibody-based targeted proteomics analysis of kidney tissue, revealing the effects of elevations of circulating aldosterone levels and circulating vasopressin levels on sodium transporter, sodium channel, and water channel abundance in kidney.
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- M A Knepper
- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1603, USA
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Pedersen RS, Bentzen H, Bech JN, Pedersen EB. Effect of water deprivation and hypertonic saline infusion on urinary AQP2 excretion in healthy humans. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2001; 280:F860-7. [PMID: 11292629 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2001.280.5.f860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Arginine vasopressin (AVP) mediates water transport in the renal collecting ducts by forming water channels of aquaporin-2 (AQP2) in the apical plasma membrane. AQP2 is excreted in human urine. We wanted to test the hypothesis that urinary excretion of AQP2 (u-AQP2) reflects the effect of AVP on the renal collecting ducts during water deprivation and hypertonic saline infusion in healthy subjects. Fifteen healthy subjects underwent a 24-h period of fluid restriction. Urine and blood samples were collected at timed intervals. Fifteen healthy subjects were given 7 ml/kg 3% hypertonic saline infusion for 30 min. Urine and blood samples were collected at timed intervals. During fluid restriction, the u-AQP2 rate increased from 3.9 (25th percentile: 3.1; 75th percentile: 5.2) to 7.6 (5.9-9.1; P < 0.001) ng/min, and the plasma AVP (p-AVP) level increased from 0.5 (0.4-0.6) to 3 (1.7-3.3) pmol/l. There was a positive correlation between the maximum change in u-AQP2 rate and the maximum change in p-AVP (r = 0.57, P < 0.03). During the infusion study, u-AQP2 rate was at maximum 90 min after the infusion [baseline: 4.5 ng/min (3.5-4.8); 90 min: 5 ng/min (4.5-6.0) P < 0.02]. p-AVP increased from 1.0 (0.9-1.1) to 1.5 (1.2-1.8; P < 0.002) pmol/l. There was a positive correlation between the maximum change in u-AQP2 rate and the maximum change in p-AVP (r = 0.83; P < 0.0001). It can be concluded that p-AVP and u-AQP2 are increased during thirst and hypertonic saline infusion and that u-AQP2 reflects the action of AVP on the collecting ducts.
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- R S Pedersen
- Department of Medicine, Holstebro Hospital, DK-7500 Holstebro, Denmark.
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Paranjape SB, Thibonnier M. Development and therapeutic indications of orally-active non-peptide vasopressin receptor antagonists. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2001; 10:825-34. [PMID: 11322860 DOI: 10.1517/13543784.10.5.825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Vasopressin (AVP) is a cyclic nonapeptide hormone that exhibits many physiological effects including free water reabsorption, vasoconstriction, cellular proliferation and adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) secretion. In a healthy organism, AVP plays an important role in the homeostasis of fluid osmolality and volume status. However, in several diseases or conditions such as the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of AVP (SIADH), congestive heart failure, arterial hypertension, liver cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome, dysmenorrhoea and ocular hypertension, AVP may play an important role in their pathophysiology. Recently, orally-active non-peptide AVP receptor antagonists were developed by random screening of chemical entities and optimisation of lead compounds. These include agents specific for the V(1)-vascular and V(2)-renal AVP receptor subtypes. Dual V(1)/V(2) AVP receptor antagonists are also being studied. Some of these non-peptide receptor antagonists have been studied extensively, while others are currently under investigation. Potential therapeutic indications for AVP receptor antagonists comprise: 1) The blockade of V(1)-vascular AVP receptors in arterial hypertension, congestive heart failure, Raynaud's syndrome, peripheral vascular disease and dysmenorrhea. 2) The blockade of V(2)-renal AVP receptors in the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of vasopressin, congestive hart failure, liver cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome and any state of excessive retention of free water and subsequent dilutional hyponatraemia. 3) The blockade of V(3)-pituitary AVP receptors in ACTH-secreting tumours. This review examines the pharmacology of orally-active non-peptide AVP receptor antagonists and their clinical applications.
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- S B Paranjape
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4951, USA
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Potier M, Elliot SJ, Tack I, Lenz O, Striker GE, Striker LJ, Karl M. Expression and regulation of estrogen receptors in mesangial cells: influence on matrix metalloproteinase-9. J Am Soc Nephrol 2001; 12:241-251. [PMID: 11158214 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v122241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Diabetic glomerulosclerosis is characterized by the accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) in the mesangium. Estrogens seem to retard whereas estrogen deficiency seems to accelerate progressive glomerulosclerosis. Thus, mesangial cells (MC) may be a target for estrogens. Estrogen action is mediated via estrogen receptor (ER) subtypes ERalpha and ERbeta. Both ER subtypes were expressed in human and mouse MC. Using an estrogen-responsive reporter construct in transfection assays, it also was demonstrated that the nuclear ER were transcriptionally active. In the presence of 17beta-estradiol (E2; 10(-10) to 10(-8) M), there was a progressive increase in the mRNA levels of both ERalpha (approximately 1.8-fold and approximately 2.7-fold after 24 and 72 h, respectively) and ERbeta (approximately 1.3-fold and approximately 2.2-fold after 24 and 72 h, respectively). ERalpha protein levels increased approximately 2.5-fold after 24 h (10(-10) M, E2) and up to approximately 5.4-fold after 72 h (10(-9) M, E2). ERbeta protein levels increased approximately 2.1-fold in the presence of E(2) (10(-9) M) after 24 h. Thus, estrogens positively regulate the expression of the ER subtypes, thereby maintaining or increasing MC responsiveness to estrogens. Because diabetic glomerulosclerosis may be due partly to a decrease in ECM degradation, the effects of estrogens on matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) were studied. It was found that E2 (10(-10) to 10(-8) M) increased both MMP-9 mRNA and MMP-9 activity in MC. This may be an important mechanism by which estrogens influence ECM turnover and protect against progression of diabetic glomerulosclerosis.
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- Mylene Potier
- Renal Cell Biology Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Renal Cell Biology Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Renal Cell Biology Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Renal Cell Biology Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Renal Cell Biology Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Vascular Biology Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Renal Cell Biology Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Vascular Biology Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Renal Cell Biology Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Vascular Biology Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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McKEE JA, Kumar S, Ecelbarger CA, Fernández-Llama P, Terris J, Knepper MA. Detection of Na(+) transporter proteins in urine. J Am Soc Nephrol 2000; 11:2128-2132. [PMID: 11053490 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v11112128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Previous studies have established that the vasopressin-regulated water channel of the collecting duct, aquaporin-2, is excreted in the urine, providing a means for assessment of regulation and dysregulation of aquaporin-2 in humans. This article addresses the hypothesis that membrane transporters from upstream nephron segments are normally detectable in urine. The experiments employed rabbit polyclonal antibodies against the major Na transporters of the proximal tubule (the type 3 Na-H exchanger [NHE3]), the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop (the bumetanide-sensitive Na-K-2Cl cotransporter [NKCC2]), and the distal convoluted tubule (the thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter [NCC]) in immunoblotting experiments. All three of these transporters were readily detectable as high molecular weight complexes present in lowdensity membrane fractions from urine of normal rats. Cross linking studies of NHE3, NKCC2, and NCC revealed that high molecular weight complexes are normally present in renal tissue. The molecular weights of the complexes in urine matched those of the cross-linked complexes in native kidney tissue. The presence in urine of integral membrane proteins representative of each nephron segment raises the possibility that limited or comprehensive proteomic analysis of urine samples may be useful in clinical settings.
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- J Andrew McKEE
- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Department of Physiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Valenti G, Laera A, Pace G, Aceto G, Lospalluti ML, Penza R, Selvaggi FP, Chiozza ML, Svelto M. Urinary aquaporin 2 and calciuria correlate with the severity of enuresis in children. J Am Soc Nephrol 2000; 11:1873-1881. [PMID: 11004218 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v11101873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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This study examined the hypothesis that nocturnal enuresis might be paralleled by aquaporin 2 (AQP2) urinary excretion. Eighty children who experienced nocturnal enuresis were studied and compared with 9 healthy children. The 24-h urine samples were divided into two portions: night collections and day collections. Creatinine equivalents of urine samples from each patient were analyzed by Western blotting. AQP2 levels were semiquantified by densitometric scanning and reported as a ratio between the intensity of the signal in the day urine sample versus the night urine sample (D/N AQP2 ratio). The D/N AQP2 ratio was 0.59 +/- 0.11 (n = 9) in healthy children and increased to 1.27 +/- 0.24 (n = 10) in a subpopulation of enuretic children who had low nocturnal vasopressin levels. In enuretic children who displayed hypercalciuria and had normal vasopressin levels, the D/N AQP2 ratio was 1.05 +/- 0.27 (n = 8). These data indicate that reduced secretion of vasopressin and absorptive hypercalciuria are independently associated with an approximately twofold increase in the urinary D/N AQP2 ratio. When low nocturnal vasopressin levels were associated with hypercalciuria, a nearly threefold increase in the D/N AQP2 ratio was observed (1. 67 +/- 0.41, n = 11). In addition, in all enuretic patients tested, the urinary D/N AQP2 ratio correlates perfectly with the severity of the disorder (nocturnal polyuria). The findings reported in this article indicate that urinary AQP2 correlates with the severity of enuresis in children.
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- Giovanna Valenti
- Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Italy
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- Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Italy
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- Department of Emergency and Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Age Biomedicine, University of Bari, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Age Biomedicine, University of Bari, Italy
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- Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Italy
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Baumgarten R, van de Pol MH, Deen PM, van Os CH, Wetzels JF. Dissociation between urine osmolality and urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 in healthy volunteers. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2000; 15:1155-61. [PMID: 10910438 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.8.1155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND It has been suggested that urinary excretion of the vasopressin-dependent water channel of the kidney collecting duct, aquaporin-2 (AQP2), reflects renal vasopressin action and might be used clinically. It is unclear, however, what relation exists between urine osmolality and urinary excretion of AQP2 (UAQP2) and it is unknown whether UAQP2 is influenced by hyperosmolality of urine or tubular flow rates. METHODS We measured urine osmolality and UAQP2 in healthy volunteers in various conditions: (i) overnight dehydration continued during the day, (ii) after infusion of 700 ml hypertonic saline (NaCl 2.5%), and (iii) after intranasal administration of 40 microg 1-desamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP). The last two tests were performed after water loading. In addition, a DDAVP test was performed, after administration of frusemide. RESULTS After overnight dehydration, the urine osmolality increased from 888+/-18 to 1004+/-17 mosmol/kg during additional hours of thirsting, whereas UAQP2 doubled from 140+/-45 to 285+/-63 fmol AQP2/micromol creatinine. Infusion of hypertonic saline increased urine osmolality from 70+/-3 to 451+/-68 mosmol/kg, while UAQP2 remained almost zero. Urine osmolality increased from 101+/-17 to 860+/-30 mosmol/kg after administration of DDAVP, with a parallel increase in UAQP2 from 32+/-14 to 394+/-81 fmol AQP2/micromol creatinine. Pre-treatment with frusemide attenuated the increase in urine osmolality, but had no effect on UAQP2 after DDAVP. CONCLUSIONS Our data demonstrate that a simple relationship between urine osmolality and UAQP2 does not exist. Therefore, random or once-only measurements of UAQP2 as an index of renal vasopressin action are not useful. In contrast, intranasal application of DDAVP resulted in a parallel rise in urine osmolality and UAQP2. Therefore this test might be useful in studying patients with urine concentration defects. The DDAVP-frusemide test revealed that the release of AQP2 into urine is not caused by hypertonicity of tubular fluid.
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- R Baumgarten
- Departments of Internal Medicine, Cell Physiology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Loffing J, Loffing-Cueni D, Macher A, Hebert SC, Olson B, Knepper MA, Rossier BC, Kaissling B. Localization of epithelial sodium channel and aquaporin-2 in rabbit kidney cortex. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2000; 278:F530-9. [PMID: 10751213 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2000.278.4.f530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and the vasopressin-dependent water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP2) mediate mineralocorticoid-regulated sodium- and vasopressin-regulated water reabsorption, respectively. Distributions of ENaC and AQP2 have been shown by immunohistochemistry in rats. Functional data from rabbits suggest a different distribution pattern of these channels than in rats. We studied, by immunohistochemistry in the rabbit kidney cortex, the distributions of ENaC and AQP2, in conjunction with marker proteins for distal segments. In rabbit cortex ENaC is restricted to the connecting tubule (CNT) cells and cortical collecting duct (CCD) cells. The intracellular distribution of ENaC shifts from the apical membrane in the most upstream CNT cells to a cytoplasmic location further downstream in the CNT and in the CCD cells. AQP2 is detected in the CCD cells exclusively. The anatomic subdivisions in the rabbit distal nephron coincide exactly with distributions of apical transport systems. The differences between rabbits and rats in the distribution patterns of ENaC and AQP2 may explain functional differences in renal salt and water handling between these species.
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- J Loffing
- Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Martin PY, Abraham WT, Lieming X, Olson BR, Oren RM, Ohara M, Schrier RW. Selective V2-receptor vasopressin antagonism decreases urinary aquaporin-2 excretion in patients with chronic heart failure. J Am Soc Nephrol 1999; 10:2165-70. [PMID: 10505693 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v10102165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Aquaporin-2 (AQP-2), a water channel located on the apical membrane of collecting duct cells, regulates water reabsorption under the control of vasopressin (AVP). Using an antibody directed to human AQP-2, a quantitative Western blot analysis was performed to determine the collecting duct responsiveness to an oral, nonpeptide, V2 receptor antagonist (VPA-985) in patients with chronic NYHA II and III heart failure. Standards were derived by conjugating the immunizing peptide to maleimide-activated bovine serum albumin and a standard curve was generated for each blot. Quantification of baseline steady-state AQP-2 excretion was done by collecting urine on the day before study drug administration. The next day patients received either placebo or VPA-985 at one of four different doses and urine was collected every 2 h. Thereafter, urinary AQP-2 excretion was calculated as a ratio of the urine flow and was expressed in pmol/h. During baseline, steady-state excretion did not change significantly (T0-T2, 458 +/- 44; T2-T4, 443 +/- 35; T4-T6, 422 +/- 35; T6-T8, 401 +/- 30). Compared to placebo, urinary AQP-2 excretion decreased significantly and in all groups in a dose-dependent manner during VPA-985 administration. The most impressive decrease was observed in the 250-mg group (T0-T2, 89 +/- 5; T2-T4, 50 +/- 18; T4-T6, 43 +/- 22; T6-T8, 42 +/- 23; P < 0.001 during each period compared with baseline and placebo results). VPA-985 significantly increased solute-free water clearance and urine output and significantly decreased urinary osmolality. Urinary AQP-2 excretion correlated best with solute-free water clearance during T0-T2 and T2-T4 collection, but a correlation with urinary osmolality and urinary output was also found during these periods. In conclusion, AQP-2 urinary excretion, as measured by quantitative Western analysis, is a sensitive biologic marker to assess the short-term responsiveness of the collecting duct to a V2 receptor AVP antagonist in chronic heart failure.
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- P Y Martin
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA
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Fernández-Llama P, Ecelbarger CA, Ware JA, Andrews P, Lee AJ, Turner R, Nielsen S, Knepper MA. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors increase Na-K-2Cl cotransporter abundance in thick ascending limb of Henle's loop. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 277:F219-26. [PMID: 10444576 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1999.277.2.f219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cyclooxygenase inhibitors, such as indomethacin and diclofenac, have well-described effects to enhance renal water reabsorption and urinary concentrating ability. Concentrating ability is regulated in part at the level of the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop, where active NaCl absorption drives the countercurrent multiplication mechanism. We used semiquantitative immunoblotting to test the effects of indomethacin and diclofenac, given over a 48-h period, on the expression levels of the ion transporters responsible for active NaCl transport in the thick ascending limb. Both agents strongly increased the expression level of the apical Na-K-2Cl cotransporter in both outer medulla and cortex. Neither agent significantly altered outer medullary expression levels of other thick ascending limb proteins, namely, the type 3 Na/H exchanger (NHE-3), Tamm-Horsfall protein, or alpha1- or beta1-subunits of the Na-K-ATPase. Administration of the EP3-selective PGE(2) analog, misoprostol, to indomethacin-treated rats reversed the stimulatory effect of indomethacin on Na-K-2Cl cotransporter expression. We conclude that cyclooxygenase inhibitors enhance urinary concentrating ability in part through effects to increase Na-K-2Cl cotransporter expression in the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop. This action is most likely due to elimination of an EP3-receptor-mediated tonic inhibitory effect of PGE(2) on cAMP production.
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- P Fernández-Llama
- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Wen H, Frokiaer J, Kwon TH, Nielsen S. Urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 in rat is mediated by a vasopressin-dependent apical pathway. J Am Soc Nephrol 1999; 10:1416-29. [PMID: 10405197 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v1071416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Clinical studies have shown that aquaporin-2 (AQP2), the vasopressin-regulated water channel, is excreted in the urine, and that the excretion increases in response to vasopressin. However, the cellular mechanisms involved in AQP2 excretion are unknown, and it is unknown whether the excretion correlates with AQP2 levels in kidney or levels in the apical plasma membrane. The present study was undertaken to clarify these issues. Immunoblotting of rat urine samples revealed significant excretion of AQP2, whereas AQP3, being a basolateral aquaporin in the same cells, was undetectable. Thus, there was a nonproportional excretion of AQP2 and AQP3 (compared with kidney levels), indicating that AQP2 is excreted predominantly via a selective apical pathway and not by whole cell shedding. Urinary AQP2 was associated with small vesicles, membrane fragments, and multivesicular bodies as determined by immunoelectron microscopy and negative staining techniques. In rats with normal water supply, daily urinary excretion of AQP2 was 3.9+/-0.9% (n = 6) of total kidney expression. Treatment with desmopressin acetate subcutaneously caused a fourfold increase in urinary excretion of AQP2 during 8 h. Forty-eight hours of thirsting, known to increase endogenous vasopressin secretion, resulted in a three-fold increase in kidney AQP2 levels but urinary excretion increased ninefold to 15+/-3% (n = 6) of AQP2 in kidney of thirsted rats. Moreover, rats that were thirsted for 48 h and subsequently allowed free access to water for 24 h produced a decrease in urinary AQP2 excretion to 38+/-15% (n = 6) of that during thirsting. In Brattleboro rats or lithium-treated normal rats completely lacking vasopressin action, and hence having extremely low levels of AQP2 in the apical plasma membrane, AQP2 was undetectable in urine. Thus, conditions with known altered vasopressin levels and altered levels of AQP2 in the apical plasma membrane were associated with corresponding major changes in AQP2 urine excretion. In contrast, in such conditions, kidney AQP2 levels and urinary AQP2 excretion did not show a proportional relationship.
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- H Wen
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Nielsen S, Kwon TH, Christensen BM, Promeneur D, Frøkiaer J, Marples D. Physiology and pathophysiology of renal aquaporins. J Am Soc Nephrol 1999; 10:647-63. [PMID: 10073616 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v103647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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The discovery of aquaporin membrane water channels by Agre and coworkers answered a long-standing biophysical question of how water specifically crosses biologic membranes, and provided insight, at the molecular level, into the fundamental physiology of water balance and the pathophysiology of water balance disorders. Of nine aquaporin isoforms, at least six are known to be present in the kidney at distinct sites along the nephron and collecting duct. Aquaporin-1 (AQP1) is extremely abundant in the proximal tubule and descending thin limb, where it appears to provide the chief route for proximal nephron water reabsorption. AQP2 is abundant in the collecting duct principal cells and is the chief target for vasopressin to regulate collecting duct water reabsorption. Acute regulation involves vasopressin-regulated trafficking of AQP2 between an intracellular reservoir and the apical plasma membrane. In addition, AQP2 is involved in chronic/adaptational regulation of body water balance achieved through regulation of AQP2 expression. Importantly, multiple studies have now identified a critical role of AQP2 in several inherited and acquired water balance disorders. This concerns inherited forms of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus and several, much more common acquired types of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus where AQP2 expression and/or targeting are affected. Conversely, AQP2 expression and targeting appear to be increased in some conditions with water retention such as pregnancy and congestive heart failure. AQP3 and AQP4 are basolateral water channels located in the kidney collecting duct, and AQP6 and AQP7 appear to be expressed at lower abundance at several sites including the proximal tubule. This review focuses mainly on the role of AQP2 in water balance regulation and in the pathophysiology of water balance disorders.
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- S Nielsen
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Schrier RW, Martin PY. Recent advances in the understanding of water metabolism in heart failure. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1999; 449:415-26. [PMID: 10026833 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4871-3_53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Hyponatremia is common in advanced heart failure and relates to the severity of the disease. Non-osmotic arginine vasopressin (AVP) release and biosynthesis have been shown to be increased during chronic cardiac failure (CHF) and baroreceptors pathways have been demonstrated to play a major role in this non-osmotic stimulation of AVP. Decreased cardiac output unloads the baroreceptors and activates the sympathetic nervous system, thus stimulating AVP through a separate pathway which overrides the osmotic pathway. Besides sympathetic nervous system activation, neurohumoral peptides, such as angiotensin II, endothelins, natriuretic peptides and prostaglandins, could also participate in the non-osmotic AVP activation. The vasoconstrictor effect of AVP has been supported by the decrease systemic vascular resistance during the administration of V1 receptor AVP antagonist in CHF patients. Administration of V2 receptor AVP antagonists corrects the hyponatremia and has been demonstrated to improve survival in animal models of heart failure. Preliminary data in humans with CHF also demonstrate urinary dilution and correction of hyponatremia with orally active non-peptide V2 receptor antagonists. Finally, upregulation of the AVP-regulated water channels, aquaporin-2 (AQP2), located in the collecting duct cells has been shown in experimental heart failure. This AQP2 upregulation can be entirely suppressed by V2 receptor AVP antagonists paralleling the correction of the hyponatremia. Thus, non-osmotic release of AVP in CHF upregulates AQP2 water channels, enhances water reabsorption and causes hyponatremia. The V1, and perhaps the V2, receptor activation may also diminish cardiac function.
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- R W Schrier
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA
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Frøkiaer J, Marples D, Valtin H, Morris JF, Knepper MA, Nielsen S. Low aquaporin-2 levels in polyuric DI +/+ severe mice with constitutively high cAMP-phosphodiesterase activity. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 276:F179-90. [PMID: 9950948 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1999.276.2.f179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the renal collecting duct, vasopressin acutely activates cAMP production, resulting in trafficking of aquaporin-2 water channels (AQP2) to the apical plasma membrane, thereby increasing water permeability. This acute response is modulated by long-term changes in AQP2 expression. Recently, a cAMP-responsive element has been identified in the AQP2 gene, raising the possibility that changes in cAMP levels may control AQP2 expression. To investigate this possibility, we determined AQP2 protein levels in a strain of mice, DI +/+ severe (DI), which have genetically high levels of cAMP-phosphodiesterase activity, and hence low cellular cAMP levels, and severe polyuria. Semiquantitative immunoblotting of membrane fractions prepared from whole kidneys revealed that AQP2 levels in DI mice were only 26 +/- 7% (+/-SE) of those in control mice (n = 10, P < 0.01). In addition, semiquantitative Northern blotting revealed a significantly lower AQP2 mRNA expression in kidneys from DI mice compared with control mice (43 +/- 6% vs. 100 +/- 10%; n = 6 in each group, P < 0.05). AQP3 levels were also reduced. The mice were polyuric and urine osmolalities were accordingly substantially lower in the DI mice than in controls (496 +/- 53 vs. 1,696 +/- 105 mosmol/kgH2O, respectively). Moreover, there was a linear correlation between urine osmolalities and AQP2 levels (P < 0.05). Immunoelectron microscopy confirmed the markedly lower expression of AQP2 in collecting duct principal cells in kidneys of DI mice and, furthermore, demonstrated that AQP2 was almost completely absent from the apical plasma membrane. Thus expression of AQP2 and AQP2 trafficking were severely impaired in DI mice. These results are consistent with the view that in vivo regulation of AQP2 expression by vasopressin is mediated by cAMP.
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- J Frøkiaer
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Shahidi H, Vottero A, Stratakis CA, Taymans SE, Karl M, Longui CA, Chrousos GP, Daughaday WH, Gregory SA, Plate JM. Imbalanced expression of the glucocorticoid receptor isoforms in cultured lymphocytes from a patient with systemic glucocorticoid resistance and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999; 254:559-65. [PMID: 9920778 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The human glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is expressed as two alternatively spliced isoforms, GRalpha and GRbeta. Whereas GRalpha is a hormone-activated transcription factor, GRbeta does not bind glucocorticoids (GCs), is transcriptionally inactive, and is a potential inhibitor of activated GRalpha. Differential expression of GR isoforms may play a role in generalized or tissue-specific GC resistance. GCs induce apoptosis in neoplastic lymphoid cells; and, defective apoptosis is implicated in the genesis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We studied a patient with generalized GC resistance and CLL. GR number in the patient's transformed lymphocytes was approximately one half that of control cells with a approximately 10-fold reduction in binding affinity for dexamethasone. In vitro apoptosis induction in CLL cells was delayed in response to GCs, but not to other apoptosis inducers. Sequencing of the GR cDNA and gene including the 2.3-kb coding region, the intron/exon junctions, the known 5'-regulatory region, and approximately 300 bp of the 3'-region revealed no alterations. Western blot with an N-terminal antibody showed normal levels of immunoreactive GR, but quantitative analysis with isoform-specific C-terminal antibodies revealed a markedly reduced GRalpha expression, and high GRbeta expression. These findings indicate that imbalanced expression of the GR isoforms may be a mechanism of GC resistance, and may have implications for tumorigenesis by enhancing cell survival.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line, Transformed
- DNA, Complementary
- Dexamethasone/metabolism
- Dexamethasone/pharmacology
- Humans
- Isomerism
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/blood
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Receptors, Glucocorticoid/blood
- Receptors, Glucocorticoid/chemistry
- Receptors, Glucocorticoid/genetics
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- H Shahidi
- Department of Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, 1725 West Harrison Street, Suite 821, Chicago, 60612, USA
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Otsuka F, Morita K, Takeuchi M, Yamauchi T, Ogura T, Sekine K, Miura M, Hirakawa M, Makino H. The Effects of Intrinsic Vasopressin on Urinary Aquaporin-2 Excretion and Urine Osmolality During Surgery Under General Anesthesia. Anesth Analg 1999. [DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199901000-00034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Otsuka F, Morita K, Takeuchi M, Yamauchi T, Ogura T, Sekines K, Miura M, Hirakawa M, Makino H. The effects of intrinsic vasopressin on urinary aquaporin-2 excretion and urine osmolality during surgery under general anesthesia. Anesth Analg 1999; 88:181-7. [PMID: 9895089 DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199901000-00034] [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]
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UNLABELLED A radioimmunoassay has been established to measure urinary aquaporin-2 excretion (u-AQP2). To elucidate how u-AQP2 changes when endogenous vasopressin is increased independently of plasma osmolality, we estimated u-AQP2 during general anesthesia for surgery. We collected urine and blood samples from 50 patients before and 90 and 180 min after anesthetic induction. Plasma (29.1+/-12.6 pg/mL) and urinary (565.1+/-207.0 ng/gCr) vasopressin levels were markedly increased after anesthetic induction. Although no significant alteration of plasma osmolality or serum sodium concentration was observed during 180 min, u-AQP2 was significantly increased (preinduction 224.5+/-24.2 fmol/ mgCr; 90 min 243.3+/-31.8; 180 min 331.4+/-45.9), paralleling an increase of plasma and urinary vasopressin. The plasma vasopressin concentration after anesthetic induction was far in excess of that expected based on plasma osmolality. Individual plasma and urinary vasopressin concentrations correlated significantly with u-AQP2. At 180 min after anesthesia, plasma osmolality did not change, but urine osmolality decreased despite increased u-AQP2, and a preanesthetic positive correlation between urine osmolality and u-AQP2 disappeared. Thus, although u-AQP2 correlates with increased intrinsic vasopressin levels, the increase in u-AQP2 did not directly contribute to urine concentration. Apparently, an escape from the physiologic effects of high vasopressin level occurs during anesthesia via a mechanism independent of aquaporin-2. We conclude that the anesthetic would interfere with the urinary concentrating capacity at the level of AQP2-action. IMPLICATIONS The excessive increase of intrinsic vasopressin exactly augmented urinary aquaporin-2 excretion, resulting in urine concentration; however, anesthesia seemed to modify this process possibly by interfering with the aquaporin-2 action.
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- F Otsuka
- Department of Medicine III, Okayama University Medical School, Japan
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Tsukahara H, Hata I, Sekine K, Miura M, Kotsuji F, Mayumi M. Renal water channel expression in newborns: measurement of urinary excretion of aquaporin-2. Metabolism 1998; 47:1344-7. [PMID: 9826210 DOI: 10.1016/s0026-0495(98)90302-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) encodes the vasopressin-regulated "water channels" of the renal collecting duct and is excreted in human urine. We measured urinary excretion of AQP-2 by radioimmunoassay in 15 term and 10 preterm infants on day 1 and day 4 of life to determine the molecular basis of water balance during the newborn period. AQP-2 was detectable in the urine of term and preterm newborns, but AQP-2 excretion was severalfold less than the reported level in normal adults. Urinary excretion of AQP-2 significantly decreased postnatally, in parallel with a reduction in urine osmolality and arginine vasopressin (AVP) excretion. Urinary AQP-2 correlated positively and significantly with urine osmolality on days 1 and 4 and with AVP on day 1 in both groups. No significant differences were detected in AQP-2 levels between term and preterm newborns. Our findings suggest that vasopressin-regulated water channels are expressed in the renal collecting duct of both term and preterm newborns, although to a lesser extent as compared with adults, and these channels encoded by AQP-2 contribute to the urine concentrating power of the newborn kidney.
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- H Tsukahara
- Department of Pediatrics, Fukui Medical School, Japan
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Sasaki S, Ishibashi K, Marumo F. Aquaporin-2 and -3: representatives of two subgroups of the aquaporin family colocalized in the kidney collecting duct. Annu Rev Physiol 1998; 60:199-220. [PMID: 9558461 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.60.1.199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Since the molecular identification of the first aquaporin in 1992, the number of proteins known to belong to this family has been rapidly increasing. These members may be separated into two subgroups based on gene structure, sequence homology, and function. Regulation of the water permeability of the collecting ducts of the kidney is essential for urinary concentration. Aquaporin-2 and -3, which are representative of these subgroups, are colocalized in the collecting ducts. Understanding these subgroups will elucidate the differences between aquaporin-2 and -3. Aquaporin-2 is a vasopressin-regulated water channel located in the apical membrane, and aquaporin-3 is a constitutive water channel located in the basolateral membrane. In contrast to aquaporin-3, which appears to be less well regulated, many studies have now identified multiple regulational mechanisms at the gene, protein, and cell levels for aquaporin-2, thus reflecting its physiological importance. Evidence of the participation of aquaporin-2 in the pathophysiology of water-balance disorders is accumulating.
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- S Sasaki
- Internal Medicine II, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
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Tsukahara H, Hata I, Sekine K, Miura M, Hata K, Fujii Y, Mayumi M. Urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 in term and preterm infants. Early Hum Dev 1998; 51:31-7. [PMID: 9570029 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3782(97)00072-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) is a vasopressin-regulated water channel of the renal collecting duct and is excreted in human urine. We measured the urinary excretion of AQP-2 by radioimmunoassay in 14 term and 12 preterm infants aged 1 month. Excretion of AQP-2 was low compared with adults, and correlated significantly with urine osmolality in preterm infants. Our results demonstrate that AQP-2 water channels are expressed in the renal collecting duct of both term and preterm infants.
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- H Tsukahara
- Department of Pediatrics, Fukui Medical School, Japan
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Olson BR, Gumowski J, Rubino D, Oldfield EH. Pathophysiology of hyponatremia after transsphenoidal pituitary surgery. J Neurosurg 1997; 87:499-507. [PMID: 9322839 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1997.87.4.0499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Hyponatremia after pituitary surgery is presumed to be due to antidiuresis; however, detailed prospective investigations of water balance that would define its pathophysiology and true incidence have not been established. In this prospective study, the authors documented water balance in patients for 10 days after surgery, monitored any sodium dysregulation, further characterized the pathophysiology of hyponatremia, and correlated the degree of intraoperative stalk and posterior pituitary damage with water balance dysfunction. Ninety-two patients who underwent transsphenoidal pituitary surgery were studied. To evaluate posterior pituitary damage, a questionnaire was completed immediately after surgery in 61 patients. To examine the osmotic regulation of vasopressin secretion in normonatremic patients, water loads were administered 7 days after surgery. Patients were categorized on the basis of postoperative plasma sodium patterns. After pituitary surgery, 25% of the patients developed spontaneous isolated hyponatremia (Day 7 +/- 0.4). Twenty percent of the patients developed diabetes insipidus and 46% remained normonatremic. Plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP) was not suppressed in hyponatremic patients during hypoosmolality or in two-thirds of the normonatremic patients after water-load testing. Only one-third of the normonatremic patients excreted the water load and suppressed AVP normally. Hyponatremic patients were more natriuretic, had lower dietary sodium intake, and had similar fluid intake and cortisol and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels compared with normonatremic patients. Normnonatremia, hyponatremia, and diabetes insipidus were associated with increasing degrees of surgical manipulation of the posterior lobe and pituitary stalk during surgery. The pathophysiology of hyponatremia after transsphenoidal surgery is complex. It is initiated by pituitary damage that produces AVP secretion and dysfunctional osmoregulation in most surgically treated patients. Additional events that act together to promote the clinical expression of hyponatremia include nonatrial natriuretic peptide-related excess natriuresis, inappropriately normal fluid intake and thirst, as well as low dietary sodium intake. Patients should be monitored closely for plasma sodium, plentiful dietary sodium replacement, mild fluid restriction, and attention to symptoms of hyponatremia during the first 2 weeks after transsphenoidal surgery.
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- B R Olson
- Department of Medicine, Waterbury Hospital, Connecticut, USA
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Saito T, Ishikawa SE, Sasaki S, Nakamura T, Rokkaku K, Kawakami A, Honda K, Marumo F, Saito T. Urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 in the diagnosis of central diabetes insipidus. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1997; 82:1823-7. [PMID: 9177390 DOI: 10.1210/jcem.82.6.3984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We determined whether alteration in urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 (UAQP-2) is of value to diagnose central diabetes insipidus (CDI). First, UAQP-2 was determined in 16 normal subjects under ad libitum water drinking (n = 6) and after an overnight dehydration (n = 10). UAQP-2 has a positive correlation with plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP) levels (r = 0.61, P < 0.05) but not with urinary osmolality (Uosm). Second, a hypertonic saline (5% NaCl)-infusion test was studied in 5 normal subjects (21 to 25 yr old) and 10 patients with CDI (22-68 yr). After drinking water ad libitum, they were given 20 mL/kg water orally and then given 5% NaCl (0.05 mL/kg x min) i.v. for 120 min. Finally, 0.1 U of AVP was administered i.v. During the period, 30-min urine collections were made. In the normal subjects, after the infusion of 5% NaCl, plasma AVP levels and Uosm markedly increased in parallel with an increase in plasma osmolality (Posm, 294-320 mOsm/kg H2O; Uosm, 102-737 mOsm/kg H2O; AVP, 0.4-2.6 pg/mL, P < 0.001). In the CDI patients, plasma AVP and Uosm failed to increase, despite an increase in Posm (Posm, 306-332; Uosm, 102-164; AVP, 0.9-1.2). UAQP-2 was markedly greater in the normal subjects than the CDI patients (7.2 vs. 0.9 pmol/L/mg creatinine, P < 0.05) under water intake ad libitum. UAQP-2 was changeable in the wide range in physiological condition. After the 5%-NaCl infusion, UAQP-2 elevated to 12.5 from 0.9 pmol/L x mg creatinine in the normal subjects. In contrast, UAQP-2 remained low during the 5%-NaCl infusion in the CDI patients. Exogenous AVP promptly increased UAQP-2 to a similar extent in two groups of the normal subjects and the CDI patients. These results indicate that measurement of UAQP-2 is of value to diagnose CDI in the 5%-NaCl infusion test.
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- T Saito
- Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
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The Non-Ligand Binding β-Isoform of the Human Glucocorticoid Receptor (hGRβ): Tissue Levels, Mechanism of Action, and Potential Physiologic Role. Mol Med 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03401643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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