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Blaustein MP, Hamlyn JM. Sensational site: the sodium pump ouabain-binding site and its ligands. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2024; 326:C1120-C1177. [PMID: 38223926 PMCID: PMC11193536 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00273.2023] [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: 06/22/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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Cardiotonic steroids (CTS), used by certain insects, toads, and rats for protection from predators, became, thanks to Withering's trailblazing 1785 monograph, the mainstay of heart failure (HF) therapy. In the 1950s and 1960s, we learned that the CTS receptor was part of the sodium pump (NKA) and that the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger was critical for the acute cardiotonic effect of digoxin- and ouabain-related CTS. This "settled" view was upended by seven revolutionary observations. First, subnanomolar ouabain sometimes stimulates NKA while higher concentrations are invariably inhibitory. Second, endogenous ouabain (EO) was discovered in the human circulation. Third, in the DIG clinical trial, digoxin only marginally improved outcomes in patients with HF. Fourth, cloning of NKA in 1985 revealed multiple NKA α and β subunit isoforms that, in the rodent, differ in their sensitivities to CTS. Fifth, the NKA is a cation pump and a hormone receptor/signal transducer. EO binding to NKA activates, in a ligand- and cell-specific manner, several protein kinase and Ca2+-dependent signaling cascades that have widespread physiological effects and can contribute to hypertension and HF pathogenesis. Sixth, all CTS are not equivalent, e.g., ouabain induces hypertension in rodents while digoxin is antihypertensinogenic ("biased signaling"). Seventh, most common rodent hypertension models require a highly ouabain-sensitive α2 NKA and the elevated blood pressure is alleviated by EO immunoneutralization. These numerous phenomena are enabled by NKA's intricate structure. We have just begun to understand the endocrine role of the endogenous ligands and the broad impact of the ouabain-binding site on physiology and pathophysiology.
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- Mordecai P Blaustein
- Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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- Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Buckalew VM. Endogenous digitalis-like factors: an overview of the history. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2015; 6:49. [PMID: 25918512 PMCID: PMC4394700 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2015.00049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The sodium pump is a ubiquitous cell surface enzyme, a Na, K ATPase, which maintains ion gradients between cells and the extracellular fluid (ECF). The extracellular domain of this enzyme contains a highly conserved binding site, a receptor for a plant derived family of compounds, the digitalis glycosides. These compounds inhibit the enzyme and are used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and certain cardiac arrhythmias. The highly conserved nature of this enzyme and its digitalis receptor led to early suggestions that endogenous regulators might exist. Recent examination of this hypothesis emerged from research in two separate areas: the regulation of ECF volume by a natriuretic hormone (NH), and the regulation of peripheral vascular resistance by a circulating inhibitor of vascular Na, K ATPase. These two areas merged with the hypothesis that NH and the vascular Na, K ATPase inhibitor were in fact the same entity, and that it played a causative role in the pathophysiology of certain types of hypertension. The possibility that multiple endogenous digitalis-like factors (EDLFs) exist emerged from efforts to characterize the circulating enzyme inhibitory activity. In this review, the development of this field from its beginnings is traced, the current status of the structure of EDLFs is briefly discussed, and areas for future development are suggested.
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- Vardaman M. Buckalew
- Medical Center Boulevard, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
- *Correspondence: Vardaman M. Buckalew, Medical Center Boulevard, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA e-mail:
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Ferrari P, Ferrandi M, Torielli L, Tripodi G, Melloni P, Bianchi G. PST 2238: A New Antihypertensive Compound that Modulates Na+,K+-ATPase and Antagonizes the Pressor Effect of OLF. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-3466.1999.tb00003.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Quadri L, Ferrandi M. Involvement of the Na+,K+-ATPase and its inhibitors in cardiovascular diseases. Expert Opin Ther Pat 2005. [DOI: 10.1517/13543776.8.1.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Menezes JC, Troster EJ, Dichtchekenian V. Digoxin antibody decreases natriuresis and diuresis in cerebral hemorrhage. Intensive Care Med 2003; 29:2291-2296. [PMID: 12955184 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1955-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2002] [Accepted: 07/03/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Brain-damaged patients may develop hyponatremia and natriuresis. Clinical evidence of digoxin antibody effect on natriuresis we found in an 11-year-old boy who developed excessive natriuresis and hyponatremia after brain tumor excision. To better understand the mechanisms involved in these clinical disturbances we used an experimental model of rats subjected to intracerebroventricular (ICV) hemorrhage. The participation of serum ouabainlike activity, possibly a natriuretic compound, and the effects of a specific blocker, digoxin antibody, were studied. METHODS The experimental study was performed in four groups of ICV infused Wistar rats: venous autologous blood infused, blood preceded by digoxin antibody, CSF-like solution, and a control group with no cannulation and no infusions. The following parameters were analyzed before and after ICV infusions: weight, urinary volume, and natriuresis. Ouabainlike activity was measured by proportional serum inhibitory activity on normal rat renal medullary Na-K-ATPase activity. RESULTS ICV blood but not CSF-like infusion increased urinary volume, natriuresis, and serum ouabainlike activity without weight gain. Natriuresis was positively correlated with serum ouabain activity in ICV blood and blood plus antibody rats. Digoxin antibody restored urinary volume, natriuresis, and ouabainlike activity. CONCLUSIONS These data provide evidence of ouabainlike activity involvement in natriuresis and urinary volume changes that occur in cerebral hemorrhage. A possible therapeutic action of digoxin antibody is proposed.
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- João C Menezes
- Basic Research Laboratory, Nephrology (LIM-12), Medical School, Sao Paulo University, Av. Dr. Arnaldo 455-3° andar-sala 3310 Cerqueira César, CEP 01246 903, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Albert Einstein Hospital and Medical School, Sao Paulo University, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Basic Research Laboratory, Nephrology (LIM-12), Medical School, Sao Paulo University, Av. Dr. Arnaldo 455-3° andar-sala 3310 Cerqueira César, CEP 01246 903, São Paulo, Brasil.
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The digitalis drugs are plant-derived cardenolide compounds used medicinally for several hundred years. These drugs elicit inotropic and chronotropic effects on the heart, but they also affect many other tissues. The mechanism of action involves inhibition of the ion-transport activity of a membrane-associated protein called Na, K-ATPase (sodium pump). Present theory holds that the sodium pump is the principal molecular receptor for the digitalis drugs. Recent evidence indicates the presence of naturally occurring digitalis-like compounds in mammals. It is believed these compounds, collectively known as either digitalis-like (DLF) or ouabain-like (OLF) factors, may be endogenous hormones regulating the biological activity of the sodium pump and its isoforms. The presence of deglycosylated and other congeners of one specific DLF, the digoxin-like immunoreactive factor (DLIF), has very recently been described in humans. Digoxin as a drug is the most widely prescribed digitalis in the U.S., and its measurement in serum has established a model for present-day therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). Historically, the accurate measurement of digoxin in blood has been difficult. This article focuses on the present understanding of the clinical use of digoxin, factors that affect the accuracy of measuring digoxin, the principle of measuring metabolically active species of digoxin, and the effects of DLIF and other interfering substances in digoxin immunoassay.
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- S A Jortani
- Department of Pathology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, KY 40292, USA
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Terness P, Navolan D, Dufter C, Kopp B, Opelz G. The T-cell suppressive effect of bufadienolides: structural requirements for their immunoregulatory activity. Int Immunopharmacol 2001; 1:119-34. [PMID: 11367509 DOI: 10.1016/s0162-3109(00)00264-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Many studies indicate that substances similar to cardenolides and bufadienolides naturally occur in mammals. The majority of previous studies focused on their cardiovascular, renal, and central nervous action. We analyzed the immunoregulatory property of 52 bufadienolides. Human T-cells were stimulated "in vitro" with mitogens or alloantigens in the presence of bufadienolides. The most active compound totally inhibited T-cell activity at a concentration of 0.75 pmol/10(5) cells. This effect is 16,384 x stronger than that of cortisol and 256 x stronger than that of cyclosporin A or tacrolimus. Preactivated T cells were downregulated and, most importantly, suppressed viable T cells could not be restimulated. Lack of the 17 beta-lactone ring dramatically reduced the activity of bufadienolides. Substitution at C3 also affected their function: components with a 3-OH group were up to 1000 x stronger than those without. The replacement of 14 beta-OH with an epoxy-group slightly decreased the activity. Because there is evidence that the latter change abolishes the cardiac activity, this finding is relevant for therapeutic applications in which immunosuppression without the risk of cardiotoxicity is attempted. One of the substances analyzed in this study was Proscillaridin A. A similar bufadienolide occurs naturally in mammals. We speculate that bufadienolides represent an important bioregulatory link between the cardiovascular, nervous and immune systems.
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- P Terness
- Institute of Immunology, Department of Transplantation Immunology, INF 305, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Menzies GS, Howland K, Rae MT, Bramley TA. Stimulation of specific binding of [3H]-progesterone to bovine luteal cell-surface membranes: specificity of digitonin. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1999; 153:57-69. [PMID: 10459854 DOI: 10.1016/s0303-7207(99)00091-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: 12/27/2022]
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Non-genomic actions of progesterone have been described in the ovary, and luteal membranes of several species have been shown to possess specific binding sites for [3H]-progesterone. However, binding of radiolabelled progesterone to luteal membranes was demonstrable only in the presence of digitonin. Digitonin is a non-ionic detergent which is thought to act by forming one-to-one complexes with certain sterols. It is also a cardiotonic agent, inhibiting (Na+-K+) ATPase activity by interaction with the extracellular (ouabain/K+) binding site. We therefore investigated which properties of digitonin were responsible for its stimulatory actions on progesterone binding to bovine luteal membranes. A range of compounds with detergent, cardiotonic and or cholesterol-complexing activities were tested for their effects on [3H]-progesterone binding to bovine luteal membrane fractions, and on haemolysis of rat erythrocytes. Stimulation of progesterone binding to luteal membranes was highly specific for digitonin, and a number of ionic and non-ionic detergents, cardenolides, saponins and cholesterol-complexing reagents tested failed either to stimulate [3H]-progesterone binding to bovine luteal membranes in the absence of digitonin, or to inhibit binding specifically in the presence of digitonin. When digitonin was first reacted with excess cholesterol or pregnenolone to form the respective digitonides, stimulatory activity was greatly reduced, suggesting that the ability of digitonin to interact with (an) endogenous steroid(s) may be important in its action. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-mass spectrometry of commercially available digitonin preparations indicated the presence of numerous minor impurities in most commercial digitonin preparations. Three major UV-absorbing peaks were isolated and characterised by mass spectrometry: all stimulated progesterone binding to bovine luteal membrane receptors in a dose-dependent manner, though to differing extents. Our data suggest that the unique action of digitonin on luteal membrane progesterone receptors is not related to its detergent or cardiotonic properties, but appears to be related to its ability to complex with membrane sterols.
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- G S Menzies
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Edinburgh, Centre for Reproductive Biology, Scotland, UK
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Lindner A, Hinds TR, Joly A, Schreiner GF. Neutral lipid from proteinuric rat urine is a novel inhibitor of the red blood cell calcium pump. J Am Soc Nephrol 1999; 10:1170-8. [PMID: 10361854 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v1061170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Proteinuria may be associated with hypertension and progression of renal insufficiency, which in turn may accompany abnormalities in cell calcium homeostasis. Therefore, urine from rats made proteinuric by puromycin aminoglycoside administration was analyzed, in a search for factors affecting cellular calcium transport. Proteinuric urine was fractionated by thin-layer chromatography and HPLC, and the effects of the fractions on the plasma membrane calcium pump in human red blood cells were assessed. Proteinuric urine contained a powerful specific inhibitor of the calcium pump that had little or no effect on the Na+/K+- or Mg2+-ATPases. The inhibitor was characterized as a neutral lipid, migrating as a single band, that inhibited 45Ca2+ efflux. To confirm the presence of an inhibitor in other proteinuric states, the urine from two patients with proteinuria was examined and subjected to chromatography as in the rat studies. These thin-layer chromatographic fractions contained a very strong inhibitor of the red blood cell calcium pump, suggesting that this substance may have relevance for the pathogenesis of proteinuric renal disease in human patients. Rat proximal tubule cells in tissue culture, when challenged with lipid-replete albumin, secreted an inhibitor of the calcium pump that migrated in the same chromatographic band as the urine factor. Therefore, the processing of fatty acids borne by albumin into endocytosing proximal tubular epithelium results in the synthesis and release of a previously unknown lipid modulator of the calcium pump, an effect that may predispose kidney tissue toward elevations in cytosolic calcium levels in target cells.
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- A Lindner
- Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle 98108, USA.
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Butt AN, Semra YK, Lane SJ, Lee T, Swaminathan R. Endogenous ouabain secretion in man is not regulated by ACTH. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 1998; 66:151-7. [PMID: 9719449 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-0760(98)00047-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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It has been suggested that endogenous ouabain-like substance (OLS) is of adrenal origin and the secretion of OLS may be ACTH dependent. To determine if OLS is influenced by the pituitary-adrenal axis, we studied the effect of adrenal stimulation (0.25 mg Synacthen) and suppression (1 mg Dexamethasone) on two separate groups of nine subjects. Serum OLS was measured by a radioimmunoassay (RIA) developed in our lab, and cortisol and ACTH were measured by commercial assay kits. Dexamethasone significantly (P< 0.001) suppressed serum cortisol and ACTH concentrations, without effecting endogenous OLS concentration (0.64+/-0.17 vs 0.85+/-0.18nmol/l). Synacthen increased the concentration of cortisol in serum (p < 0.001) over the test period; OLS concentration, again, remained unchanged (0.45+/-0.04 vs 0.43+/-0.05 nmol/l). In further studies, serum concentrations of cortisol and OLS were compared between left (LAV) and right (RAV) adrenal veins with that from the inferior vena cava (IVC). Concentration of cortisol in the LAV and RAV was five-fold greater than that in IVC. However, there was no difference in OLS concentration at the corresponding sites. In addition, serum OLS concentrations in patients having undergone bilateral adrenalectomy or diagnosed with Addison's disease (0.62+/-0.19 nmol/l) were similar to concentrations in healthy subjects (0.67+/-0.21 nmol/l). Examination of bovine adrenal, liver, kidney, heart and human placenta demonstrated that OLS content of bovine adrenal was comparable with other tissues analysed. HPLC studies of human serum and bovine adrenal gland produced identical elution profiles, resolving a single peak which coincided with the retention time observed for standard ouabain. We conclude that the adrenal is unlikely to be the source of endogenous OLS, the secretion of which appears to be independent of ACTH.
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- A N Butt
- Department of Chemical Pathology, UMDS, Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital Trust, London, UK
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Lichtstein D, Steinitz M, Gati I, Samuelov S, Deutsch J, Orly J. Bufodienolides as endogenous Na+, K+-ATPase inhibitors: biosynthesis in bovine and rat adrenals. Clin Exp Hypertens 1998; 20:573-9. [PMID: 9682913 DOI: 10.3109/10641969809053235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The biosynthesis of digitalis-like compounds (DLC) was determined in bovine and rat adrenal homogenates by following changes in the concentration of DLC using three independent sensitive bioassays: inhibition of [3H]-ouabain binding to red blood cells and competitive ouabain and bufalin ELISA. The amounts of DLC in bovine and rat adrenal homogenates, as measured by the two first bioassays, increased with time when the mixtures were incubated under tissue culture conditions. These results suggest that Na+, K+-ATPase inhibitors which interact with ouabain antibodies, but not those which interact with bufalin antibodies, are synthesized in bovine and rat adrenals.
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- D Lichtstein
- Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Lichtstein D, Steinitz M, Gati I, Samuelov S, Deutsch J, Orly J. Biosynthesis of digitalis-like compounds in rat adrenal cells: hydroxycholesterol as possible precursor. Life Sci 1998; 62:2109-26. [PMID: 9627090 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(98)00186-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The biosynthesis of digitalis-like compounds (DLC) was determined in bovine and rat adrenal homogenates, as well as in primary rat adrenal cells, by following changes in the concentration of DLC using three independent sensitive bioassays: inhibition of [3H]-ouabain binding to red blood cells and competitive ouabain and bufalin ELISA. The amounts of DLC in bovine and rat adrenal homogenates, as measured by the two first bioassays, increased with time when the mixtures were incubated under tissue culture conditions. Rat primary adrenal cells were incubated in the presence of [1,2-(3)H]-25-hydroxycholesterol, [26,27-(3)H]-25-hydroxycholesterol or [7-(3)H]-pregnenolone. The radioactive products, as well as the digitalis-like activity, were fractionated by three sequential chromatography systems. When [1,2-(3)H]-25-hydroxycholesterol or [7-(3)H]-pregnenolone was added to the culture medium, the radioactivity was co-eluted with digitalis-like activity, suggesting that at least one of the DLC might originate in hydroxycholesterol. In contrast, when the culture medium was supplemented with [26,27-(3)H]-25-hydroxycholesterol, the radioactivity was not co-eluted with the digitalis-like activity, indicating that side chain cleavage is the first step in the synthesis of digitalis-like compounds by rat adrenal.
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- D Lichtstein
- Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Ho CS, Bisson DL, Dunster GD, O'Hare JP, Swaminathan R. Effect of head-out water immersion on serum sodium transport inhibitor and urinary nonadrenaline excretion in pre-menopausal women. Clin Exp Hypertens 1998; 20:451-63. [PMID: 9607406 DOI: 10.3109/10641969809053224] [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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The effect of head out water immersion on the excretion of catecholamines and serum sodium transport inhibitor (STI) was studied in healthy young women during the follicular and leuteal phases. Two way ANOVA showed that menstrual cycle had no effect on the excretion of noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA) or serum STI. Analysis of pooled data from follicular and leuteal phases showed that immersion caused a significant increase in sodium excretion and serum STI and a significant decrease in urinary NA excretion in healthy young women. After immersion, sodium excretion, DA excretion and serum STI decreased and NA increased.
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- C S Ho
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
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Butt AN, Semra YK, Ho CS, Swaminathan R. Effect of high salt intake on plasma and tissue concentration of endogenous ouabain-like substance in the rat. Life Sci 1997; 61:2367-73. [PMID: 9399628 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(97)00953-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The effect of high salt intake on serum concentration and tissue distribution of ouabain-like substance (OLS) was examined in rats. Sprague-Dawley rats (n=8) were placed on a high salt diet by the inclusion of 1.8% sodium chloride in drinking water for 7 days and a 'control' group (n=8) was maintained on normal drinking water during the study period. Serum and tissue OLS was measured by radioimmunoassay after solid phase extraction. High salt intake significantly increased serum OLS concentration (1.43 +/- 0.06 vs 1.14 +/- 0.05 nmol/L; mean +/- SEM, P=0.002). In both groups, the adrenal showed significantly (p < 0.001) higher OLS content compared to liver, kidney, heart and brain. HPLC of rat serum extract resolved a major peak with a retention time identical to that of standard ouabain, further confirming the nature of OLS. We conclude that high salt intake increases endogenous production of OLS, which appears to originate from the adrenal gland in the rat.
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- A N Butt
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust, UMDS, London
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Ho CS, Butt A, Semra YK, Swaminathan R. Effect of carbidopa on the excretion of sodium, dopamine, and ouabain-like substance in the rat. Hypertension 1997; 30:1544-8. [PMID: 9403580 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.30.6.1544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The effect of carbidopa, a competitive inhibitor of dopamine synthesis on the excretion of sodium, dopamine (DA), and endogenous sodium transport inhibitor (ESTI), was examined in rats on normal and high salt diets for 7 days. ESTI activity was measured (1) as ouabain-like substance (OLS) by radioimmunoassay using an antibody raised against ouabain, (2) by inhibition of purified Na+,K+-ATPase activity (ATPI), and (3) as digoxin-like substance (DLS) using a commercial digoxin assay. The OLS immunoassay was validated against rubidium transport studies. High salt diet caused an increase in OLS and ATPI but not DLS. Sodium excretion in rats on normal sodium intake was not affected by carbidopa treatment but was significantly lower in the high sodium diet group during the first 5 days of the study. In the low salt group, carbidopa treatment caused significant increases in OLS. We conclude that ESTI (measured as OLS) and DA are important in the natriuresis of salt loading.
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- C S Ho
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
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Teruya H, Yamazato M, Muratani H, Sakima A, Takishita S, Terano Y, Fukiyama K. Role of ouabain-like compound in the rostral ventrolateral medulla in rats. J Clin Invest 1997; 99:2791-8. [PMID: 9169510 PMCID: PMC508126 DOI: 10.1172/jci119469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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To determine whether ouabain-like compound (OLC) exerts modulatory influences on the activity of vasomotor neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), we examined the effects of microinjecting ouabain, digoxin-specific antibody Fab fragments, and mAb against ouabain on the rat RVLM. Microinjection of ouabain into the unilateral RVLM of anesthetized normotensive rats elicited dose-dependent increases in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA). The pressor and sympathoexcitatory effects of ouabain in the RVLM were reversed by microinjections of an M2 muscarinic antagonist, gallamine, or digoxin-specific antibody Fab fragments. Furthermore, a prior microinjection in the RVLM of gallamine, digoxinspecific antibody Fab fragments, or kainic acid or intravenous injection of hexamethonium all prevented the pressor and sympathoexcitatory effects induced by a subsequent microinjection of ouabain. Microinjections of either digoxinspecific antibody Fab fragments or gallamine per se significantly decreased baseline MAP and RSNA. Injection of digoxin-specific antibody Fab fragments attenuated the effects of a subsequent injection of gallamine. Microinjection of mAb against ouabain, but not nonspecific IgG, also significantly decreased baseline MAP and RSNA. These results suggest that OLC in the RVLM contributes to the tonic activity of vasomotor neurons in anesthetized normotensive rats, and the action of OLC in the RVLM is at least partly mediated by M2 muscarinic mechanisms.
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- H Teruya
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine, Okinawa 903-01, Japan.
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Harwood S, Little JA, Gallacher G, Perrett D, Edwards R, Dawnay A. Development of enzyme immunoassay for endogenous ouabain-like compound in human plasma. Clin Chem 1997. [DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/43.5.715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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AbstractWidespread evidence supports the existence of an endogenous digitalis-like compound in mammals. We report here the development of a novel enzyme immunoassay for ouabain that, in conjunction with a detailed HPLC study, identifies a ouabain-like compound (OLC) in extracted human plasma. The assay is sensitive—minimum detection limit for OLC 37 pmol/L (11 pmol/L in plasma)—and has a working range (between-assay CV <10%) of 180–10 000 pmol/L (54–3000 pmol/L in plasma). Mean recoveries of ouabain added to plasma ranged from 90% to 100%, and plasma extracts diluted in parallel to the standard curve. Plasma OLC concentrations in 10 healthy volunteers averaged 92 pmol/L (range 55–168), assuming 100% cross-reactivity of OLC in the ouabain assay. HPLC analysis with two distinct chromatographic conditions demonstrated that endogenous human plasma OLC co-eluted with authentic ouabain. The enzyme immunoassay is rapid and easy to perform and will support further investigation of the nature of this controversial endogenous steroid.
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- Netria, Department of Chemical Endocrinology, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A 7BE, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Renal Research Laboratory, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Centre for Clinical Research, London ECIA 7BE, UK
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- Netria, Department of Chemical Endocrinology, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A 7BE, UK
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Lindner A, Vanholder R, De Smet R, Hinds TR, Vogeleere P, Sandra P, Foxall P, Ringoir S. HPLC fractions of human uremic plasma inhibit the RBC membrane calcium pump. Kidney Int 1997; 51:1042-52. [PMID: 9083269 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1997.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have reported that uremic plasma filtrates (UF) inhibit the red blood cell (RBC) membrane calcium pump. The inhibitor was dialyzable, smaller than 3,000 molecular weight, heat-stable, and protease-resistant. In the present study, we used reverse-phase preparative HPLC, analytical HPLC, and Sephadex G-25 elution to identify inhibitory fractions. Inhibition was confirmed in three different bioassays: (1) Sr2+ efflux in intact RBC, the primary bio-assay; (2) 45Ca efflux in intact RBC; and (3) calcium ATPase activity in isolated RBC membranes. Active fractions were analyzed by mass spectrometry, capillary electrophoresis, enzymatic analysis, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. These demonstrated a number of compounds, including: sugars, polyols, osmolytes like betaine and myoinositol, amino acids, and other metabolites, such as 3-D-hydroxybutyrate, dimethylglycine, trimethylamine-N-oxide, guanidinoacetic acid and glycine. Many individual compounds were then tested for an effect on the calcium pump. Thus, HPLC was able to separate a substantial number of compounds in inhibitory fractions. Efforts are under way for precise identification of the inhibitor, to advance our understanding of uremic toxicity and/or hypertension in CRF.
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- A Lindner
- Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98108, USA
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Tao QF, Hollenberg NK, Price DA, Graves SW. Sodium pump isoform specificity for the digitalis-like factor isolated from human peritoneal dialysate. Hypertension 1997; 29:815-21. [PMID: 9052901 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.29.3.815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We have isolated a labile, specific sodium pump inhibitor or digitalis-like factor from the peritoneal dialysate of volume-expanded renal failure patients whose levels correlated closely with volume status and blood pressure. This study characterizes the inhibitory profile of this agent compared with that of ouabain against the three alpha-isoforms of the sodium pump. We prepared microsomal Na,K-ATPase from rat tissues representing the highest proportion of one of the alpha-isoforms. Both Northern and Western blot analyses confirmed that kidney had predominantly the alpha1-isoform, skeletal muscle the alpha2-isoform, and fetal brain the alpha3-isoform. Ouabain (5 x 10(-6) mol/L) produced little inhibition of kidney Na,K-ATPase (3.4+/-2.0%) but significant inhibition of skeletal muscle (37.2+/-3.7%, P<.001) and fetal brain (38.8+/-3.5%, P<.001) activity. In contrast, the labile digitalis-like factor, causing comparable inhibition of fetal brain Na,K-ATPase activity (33.3+/-4.7%), produced markedly greater inhibition of kidney (42.5+/-5.6%, P<.001) and moderately greater inhibition of skeletal muscle pump activity (57.7+/-6.3%, P<.05). In addition, the labile digitalis-like factor produced a marked concentration-dependent inhibition of the alpha2- and alpha3-isoforms (r=.79, P=.00005). Experiments combining the labile digitalis-like factor and ouabain confirmed that digitalis-like factor, unlike ouabain, was an effective inhibitor of all three isoforms in rat, in particular alpha2. The different pattern of isoform sensitivity displayed by the labile digitalis-like factor and ouabain further differentiates the two agents and raises some interesting possibilities about the functional implications of the endogenous factor.
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- Q F Tao
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02115, USA
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NICHOLLS MGARY, RICHARDS AMARK. Neurohormonal factors in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension. Nephrology (Carlton) 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.1996.tb00142.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chan TY, Critchley JA, Ho CS, Chan JC, Tomlinson B. Urinary dopamine and noradrenaline outputs during oral salt loading in healthy Chinese subjects with a family history of hypertension. JOURNAL OF AUTONOMIC PHARMACOLOGY 1996; 16:1-6. [PMID: 8736424 DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-8673.1996.tb00349.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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1. Increased salt sensitivity has been reported in first-degree relatives of hypertensive patients. To determine if the enhanced effect of oral salt intake on blood pressure in such individuals is related to abnormal renal dopamine (DA) or sympathetic nervous system responses, we studied the effects of two different sodium intakes (20 mmol/day followed by 220 mmol/day each given for 5 days) on mean arterial pressure (MAP) and urinary excretion of sodium, free DA and noradrenaline (NA) in seven normotensive Chinese subjects with a family history of hypertension. We compared these results with those we have reported previously for normotensive subjects without a family history of hypertension. 2. There was a seven- to ten-fold increase in sodium excretion (P < 0.02). MAP increased from 80.1 +/- 2.5 to 83.1 +/- 2.1 mmHg (P < 0.05). A 23% increase in urine DA (P < 0.02) was seen on day 1. From day 2 to day 5, the increase in urine DA (12-15%) became attenuated and reached statistical significance only on days 2 and 5. There was no significant change in urinary NA output. 3. As in healthy Chinese subjects without a family history of hypertension, those with a family history showed an early but unsustained rise in urine DA during oral sodium loading. Such an increase was rather small compared to the increase in urine sodium, suggesting that renal DA only contributes partly to the natriuretic response. Unlike those with no family history, subjects with a family history showed an increase in blood pressure after oral salt loading, possibly because of inadequate suppression of sympathetic nervous system activity.
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- T Y Chan
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin
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Tao QF, Soszynski PA, Hollenberg NK, Graves SW. Specificity of the volume-sensitive sodium pump inhibitor isolated from human peritoneal dialysate in chronic renal failure. Kidney Int 1996; 49:420-9. [PMID: 8821826 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1996.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Compromised renal function predisposes to volume-dependent hypertension. Increased plasma levels of a sodium pump inhibitor as a possible pathogenetic factor have been demonstrated by many investigators in such patients, but efforts to identify the responsible agent have led to many, diverse candidates. Our premise in this study is that candidacy must depend on the satisfaction of rigorous criteria, including a specific action of the agent on the sodium pump. These criteria included reversibility, concentration dependence, receptor mediation, and an action at the appropriate step in the enzyme cycle. These criteria were applied to a potent [Na,K]ATPase inhibitor we have identified in the peritoneal dialysate of patients with chronic renal failure, present only during extracellular fluid volume expansion, the levels of which are correlated with the blood pressure rise that results from excessive NaCl and water intake. In microsomes that contained both [Na,K]ATPase and other ATPases, this candidate inhibited only the Na and K dependent, ouabain-sensitive ATPase. It displaced ouabain from the cardioglycoside binding site and its binding was linked to inhibition. Inhibition was produced by slowing the pump's dephosphorylation step, the exact action of all cardioglycosides. Finally, the candidate cross reacted with a digoxin Fab fragment and this Fab reversed its inhibition of [Na,K]ATPase. Together, these experiments demonstrate that the PD candidate specifically, and reversibly, inhibits the sodium pump via the cardioglycoside binding site, and hence, meets this crucial criterion for candidacy.
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- Q F Tao
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Hollenberg NK, Graves SW. Endogenous sodium pump inhibition: current status and therapeutic opportunities. PROGRESS IN DRUG RESEARCH. FORTSCHRITTE DER ARZNEIMITTELFORSCHUNG. PROGRES DES RECHERCHES PHARMACEUTIQUES 1996; 46:9-42. [PMID: 8754202 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8996-4_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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One might ask, given the number of false trails that have been pursued, why we, and so many others, have continued to pursue the elusive digitalis-like factor? The answer can be found in the many review articles cited above [4-13]. In animal models of volume-dependent hypertension, evidence favoring sodium pump inhibition as at least a contributing factor, is essentially overwhelming. These observations are supported by multiple lines of less direct evidence in humans which are also compatible with a contribution of a circulating sodium pump inhibitor. Indeed, if multiple premature claims announcing the isolation of the digitalis-like factor had not appeared, this would be one of a large number of interesting scientific areas in which identification of a responsible vector was expected momentarily. The disenchantment so often expressed, we believe, reflects a response to those premature claims. We echo a recent review on the digoxin-like sodium pump inhibitor story from one of the productive groups in this area. "Now that there is little doubt that endogenous digoxin-like inhibitors of sodium transport exist..., the link between these substances, salt intake and vascular tone must be pursued with increasing vigor" [12]. That pursuit, of course, will be easier if the criteria concerning the responsible mediator are employed systematically. Because the current situation resembles so strikingly the situation late in the nineteenth century--when efforts focused on the attempt to identify a specific microorganism as the agent responsible for specific disease--we employed Koch's Postulates as the organizing principle. The challenge faced by Robert Koch over a century ago is identical to the challenge that those of us who are interested in digitalis-like factors face today. Passionate advocacy and equally impassioned denial can be seen as a stage in the scientific process when the problem is important and has proven to be more intractable than anticipated. Substantial, but still circumstantial evidence supports strongly a role for a circulating digitalis-like factor not only in normal sodium homeostasis and in the pathogenesis of salt-sensitive hypertension, but also in the pathogenesis of a wide array of processes that have an uncertain etiology. Although supported by many lines of evidence, this intriguing concept remains controversial, in large part because the responsible factor has proven to be very elusive. Informed opinion today ranges from arguments that the agent does not exist to contrary arguments that the agent has been identified. A very large number of candidates from a wide range of chemical classes have been proposed. Indeed, the large number of candidates, none supported by absolutely definitive evidence, has contributed to the controversy. In this essay, we have attempted to define and illustrate the information that will be required before a candidate becomes widely accepted.
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- N K Hollenberg
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- M G Nicholls
- Department of Medicine, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand
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Coronary risk factors and their modification: Lipids, smoking, hypertension, estrogen, and the elderly. Curr Probl Cardiol 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0146-2806(06)80023-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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