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Vinturache AE, Smith FG. Angiotensin type 1 and type 2 receptors during ontogeny: cardiovascular and renal effects. Vascul Pharmacol 2014; 63:145-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vph.2014.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Revised: 10/23/2014] [Accepted: 11/02/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Cuffe J, Walton S, Steane S, Singh R, Simmons D, Moritz K. The effects of gestational age and maternal hypoxia on the placental renin angiotensin system in the mouse. Placenta 2014; 35:953-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2014.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Revised: 09/01/2014] [Accepted: 09/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Brown RD, Hilliard LM, Mirabito KM, Wirth LC, Moritz KM, Evans RG, Denton KM, Denton KM. Reduced sensitivity of the renal vasculature to angiotensin II in young rats: the role of the angiotensin type 2 receptor. Pediatr Res 2014; 76:448-52. [PMID: 25119338 DOI: 10.1038/pr.2014.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND The angiotensin type-2 receptor (AT2R) opposes the vasoconstrictor actions of angiotensin II (AngII) mediated through the angiotensin type-1 receptor (AT1R). Renal AT2R levels are high during fetal life, but decrease significantly during postnatal maturation. To provide insight into the functional role of the AT2R in the kidney during postnatal development, we investigated the effects of AT2R antagonism on cardiovascular responses to AngII in young and adult male rats. METHODS In anesthetized 3- and 6-wk-old male Sprague-Dawley rats, mean arterial pressure (MAP) and renal blood flow (RBF) were measured in response to AngII in the presence of vehicle treatment or AT2R blockade with PD123319. RESULTS The pressor effect of AngII and associated reduction in RBF were significantly less in 3-wk- than 6-wk-old rats. AT2R blockade potentiated the reduction in RBF in response to AngII in 3-wk-old rats only. CONCLUSION In young rats, the AT2R modulates the response to AngII, blunting renal vasoconstriction. This effect is attenuated with age in association with a developmental reduction in renal AT2R expression. These findings may have implications for the development of novel therapies that target the renin-angiotensin system for the improvement of renal function in term and, in particular, preterm infants.
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- Russell D Brown
- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Shi L, Mao C, Zeng F, Zhang L, Xu Z. Central angiotensin I increases swallowing activity and oxytocin release in the near-term ovine fetus. Neuroendocrinology 2012; 95:248-56. [PMID: 22086358 PMCID: PMC3701448 DOI: 10.1159/000332736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2011] [Accepted: 06/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The brain renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in hydromineral and neuroendocrine balance. Although previous studies showed that exogenous angiotensin (Ang) II increased dipsogenic and vasopressin responses in near-term fetuses, little is known about the functional development of fetal endogenous brain RAS in the regulation of body fluid homeostasis. To determine the functional development of the central angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in utero, we investigated the electrocortical (ECoG) activity, swallowing activity, oxytocin (OT) release, and c-fos expression in response to intracerebroventricular Ang I administration in the near-term fetal lamb. Ang I did not change fetal low-voltage (LV) and high-voltage (HV) ECoG temporal distributions, but increased fetal swallowing activity during LV ECoG (1.0±0.1 to 3.5±0.4 swallows/min). Additionally, Ang I evoked an increase in c-fos-immunoreactivity in putative dipsogenic centers, including the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus, accompanied by an increase in fetal plasma OT levels. The expression of c-fos was demonstrated in OT neurons in the hypothalamus. The Ang I-mediated increase in fetal swallowing and plasma OT was inhibited by captopril. These results demonstrate the functional development of the fetal brain ACE system in the last trimester of gestation, which plays an important role in the RAS-mediated dipsogenic response and OT release in the regulation of body fluid homeostasis.
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- Lijun Shi
- Beijing Sport University, Beijing, The First Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China
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- Beijing Sport University, Beijing, The First Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China
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- Beijing Sport University, Beijing, The First Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China
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- Beijing Sport University, Beijing, The First Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China
- Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif., USA
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- Beijing Sport University, Beijing, The First Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China
- Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif., USA
- *Zhice Xu, Institute for Fetal-Origin Diseases, The First Hospital of Soochow University, 188 Shizhi Rd., Suzhou 215007 (PR China), Tel. +86 512 6185 9998, E-Mail
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Local renin–angiotensin systems in the genitourinary tract. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 2011; 385:13-26. [DOI: 10.1007/s00210-011-0706-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 10/18/2011] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Singh RR, Moritz KM, Wintour EM, Jefferies AJ, Iqbal J, Bertram JF, Denton KM. Fetal uninephrectomy in male sheep alters the systemic and renal responses to angiotensin II infusion and AT1R blockade. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2011; 301:F319-26. [DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00139.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Fetal uninephrectomy (uni-x) at 100 days of gestation results in compensatory nephrogenesis in the remaining kidney, resulting in a 30% reduction in total nephron number in male sheep. Recently, we showed that uni-x males at 6 mo of age have elevated arterial pressure, reduced renal blood flow (RBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and low plasma renin levels (Singh R, Denton K, Bertram J, Jefferies A, Head G, Lombardo P, Schneider-Kolsky M, Moritz K. J Hypertens 27: 386–396, 2009; Singh R, Denton K, Jefferies A, Bertram J, Moritz K. Clin Sci (Lond) 118: 669–680, 2010). We hypothesized this was due to upregulation of the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system (RAS). In this study, renal responses to ANG II infusion and ANG II type 1 receptor (AT1R) blockade were examined in the same 6-mo-old male sheep. Uni-x animals had reduced levels of renal tissue and plasma renin and ANG II. Renal gene expression of renin, and gene and protein levels of AT1R and AT2R, were significantly lower in uni-x animals. In response to graded ANG II infusion, sham animals had the expected decrease in conscious RBF and GFR. Interestingly, the response was biphasic in uni-x sheep, with GFR initially decreasing, but then increasing at higher ANG II doses (34 ± 7%; Pgroup × treatment < 0.001), due to a paradoxical decrease in renal vascular resistance ( Pgroup × treatment < 0.001). In response to AT1R blockade, while GFR and RBF responded similarly between groups, there was a marked increase in sodium excretion in uni-x compared with sham sheep (209 ± 35 vs. 25 ± 12%; P < 0.001). In conclusion, in 6-mo-old male sheep born with a single kidney, these studies demonstrate that this is a low-renin form of hypertension, in which responses to ANG II are perturbed and the intrarenal RAS is downregulated.
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Departments of 1Anatomy and Developmental Biology and
- Physiology, Monash University, Victoria, and
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- Physiology, Monash University, Victoria, and
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Maturation of the angiotensin II cardiovascular response in the embryonic White Leghorn chicken (Gallus gallus). J Comp Physiol B 2010; 180:1057-65. [PMID: 20495810 PMCID: PMC2940048 DOI: 10.1007/s00360-010-0473-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2009] [Revised: 04/19/2010] [Accepted: 04/23/2010] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Angiotensin II (Ang II) is an important regulator of cardiovascular function in adult vertebrates. Although its role in regulating the adult system has been extensively investigated, the cardiovascular response to Ang II in embryonic vertebrates is relatively unknown. We investigated the potential of Ang II as a regulator of cardiovascular function in embryonic chickens, which lack central nervous system control of cardiovascular function throughout the majority of incubation. The cardiovascular response to Ang II in embryonic chickens was investigated over the final 50% of their development. Ang II produced a dose-dependent increase in arterial pressure on each day of development studied, and the response increased in intensity as development progressed. The Ang II type-1 receptor nonspecific competitive peptide antagonist [Sar(1) ile(8)] Ang II blocked the cardiovascular response to subsequent injections of Ang II on day 21 only. The embryonic pressure response to Ang II (hypertension only) differed from that of adult chickens, in which initial hypotension is followed by hypertension. The constant level of gene expression for the Ang II receptor, in conjunction with an increasing pressure response to the peptide, suggests that two Ang II receptor subtypes are present during chicken development. Collectively, the data indicate that Ang II plays an important role in the cardiovascular development of chickens; however, its role in maintaining basal function requires further study.
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Pountain S, Pipkin FB, Hunter M. The ontogeny of components of the renin–angiotensin system in the porcine fetal ovary. Anim Reprod Sci 2010; 117:119-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2009.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2008] [Revised: 03/05/2009] [Accepted: 03/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Gwathmey TM, Shaltout HA, Pendergrass KD, Pirro NT, Figueroa JP, Rose JC, Diz DI, Chappell MC. Nuclear angiotensin II type 2 (AT2) receptors are functionally linked to nitric oxide production. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2009; 296:F1484-93. [PMID: 19244399 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.90766.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Expression of nuclear angiotensin II type 1 (AT(1)) receptors in rat kidney provides further support for the concept of an intracellular renin-angiotensin system. Thus we examined the cellular distribution of renal ANG II receptors in sheep to determine the existence and functional roles of intracellular ANG receptors in higher order species. Receptor binding was performed using the nonselective ANG II antagonist (125)I-[Sar(1),Thr(8)]-ANG II ((125)I-sarthran) with the AT(1) antagonist losartan (LOS) or the AT(2) antagonist PD123319 (PD) in isolated nuclei (NUC) and plasma membrane (PM) fractions obtained by differential centrifugation or density gradient separation. In both fetal and adult sheep kidney, PD competed for the majority of cortical NUC (> or =70%) and PM (> or =80%) sites while LOS competition predominated in medullary NUC (> or =75%) and PM (> or =70%). Immunodetection with an AT(2) antibody revealed a single approximately 42-kDa band in both NUC and PM extracts, suggesting a mature molecular form of the NUC receptor. Autoradiography for receptor subtypes localized AT(2) in the tubulointerstitium, AT(1) in the medulla and vasa recta, and both AT(1) and AT(2) in glomeruli. Loading of NUC with the fluorescent nitric oxide (NO) detector DAF showed increased NO production with ANG II (1 nM), which was abolished by PD and N-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester, but not LOS. Our studies demonstrate ANG II receptor subtypes are differentially expressed in ovine kidney, while nuclear AT(2) receptors are functionally linked to NO production. These findings provide further evidence of a functional intracellular renin-angiotensin system within the kidney, which may represent a therapeutic target for the regulation of blood pressure.
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- Tanya M Gwathmey
- Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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Deficiency of intrarenal angiotensin II type 2 receptor impairs paired homeo box-2 and N-myc expression during nephrogenesis. Pediatr Nephrol 2008; 23:1769-77. [PMID: 18607644 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-008-0854-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2007] [Revised: 03/27/2008] [Accepted: 03/31/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We previously demonstrated that angiotensin II (Ang II) stimulates paired homeo box-2 (Pax-2) via the Ang II type 2 receptor (AT(2)R). The Pax-2 gene and N-myc play pivotal roles in renal morphogenesis via their effects on cell proliferation and differentiation in embryonic mesenchymal cells and embryonic mouse kidneys. Since AT(2)R knock-out (KO) mice have a phenotype that is similar to that of humans with congenital renal and urinary tract anomalies (CAKUT) and develop hypertension in adulthood, these mice and wild-type controls were used for this study. Embryonic kidneys isolated from E12 to term gestation were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) with or without Ang II (10(-6) M) for 24 h ex vivo. Renal morphogenesis was histologically assessed. Mean glomerular tuft volume was determined by the method of Weibel and Gomez with the aid of image analysis software. Pax-2 and N-myc gene expression were determined by immunostaining as well as by Western blotting and real-time-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Glomerular size was significantly smaller, and Pax-2 and N-myc expression down-regulated, in kidneys of AT(2)R KO mice compared with those of wild-type mice. In ex vivo studies, Ang II stimulated Pax-2 and N-myc mRNA expression in embryonic kidneys of wild-type mice, but this stimulatory effect was absent in embryonic kidneys of AT(2)R KO mice. Taken together, these data indicate that intrarenal AT(2)R plays an important role in nephrogenesis. Deficiency of AT(2)R may impair both Pax-2 and N-myc expression, eventually resulting in glomerular hyperfiltration that may, ultimately, lead to later development of hypertension.
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Guan J, Mao C, Feng X, Zhang H, Xu F, Geng C, Zhu L, Wang A, Xu Z. Fetal development of regulatory mechanisms for body fluid homeostasis. Braz J Med Biol Res 2008; 41:446-54. [DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2008005000025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2008] [Accepted: 04/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- J. Guan
- Soochow University School of Medicine, China; Bengbu Medical College, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China
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- Soochow University School of Medicine, China; Loma Linda University School of Medicine, USA
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Zohdi V, Moritz KM, Bubb KJ, Cock ML, Wreford N, Harding R, Black MJ. Nephrogenesis and the renal renin-angiotensin system in fetal sheep: effects of intrauterine growth restriction during late gestation. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2007; 293:R1267-73. [PMID: 17581839 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00119.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Previous studies have shown that intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) can impair nephrogenesis, but uncertainties remain about the importance of the gestational timing of the insult and the effects on the renal renin-angiotensin system (RAS). We therefore hypothesized that induction of IUGR during late gestation alters the RAS, and this is associated with a decrease in nephron endowment. Our aims were to determine the effects of IUGR induced during the later stages of nephrogenesis on 1) nephron number; 2) mRNA expression of angiotensin AT(1) and AT(2) receptors, angiotensinogen, and renin genes in the kidney; and 3) the size of maculae densae. IUGR was induced in fetal sheep (n = 7) by umbilical-placental embolization from 110 to 130 days of the approximately 147-day gestation; saline-infused fetuses served as controls (n = 7). Samples of cortex from the left kidney were frozen, and the right kidney was perfusion fixed. Total kidney volume, nephron number, renal corpuscle volume, total maculae densae volume, and the volume of macula densa per glomerulus were stereologically estimated. mRNA expression of AT(1) and AT(2) receptors, angiotensinogen, and renin in the renal cortex was determined. In IUGR fetuses at 130 days, body and kidney weights were significantly reduced and nephron number was reduced by 24%. There was no difference in renin, angiotensinogen, or AT(1) and AT(2) receptor mRNA expression levels in the IUGR kidneys compared with controls. We conclude that fetal growth restriction late in nephrogenesis can lead to a marked reduction in nephron endowment but does not affect renal corpuscle or macula densa size, or renal RAS gene expression.
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- Vladislava Zohdi
- Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia.
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Since the first identification of renin by Tigerstedt and Bergmann in 1898, the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been extensively studied. The current view of the system is characterized by an increased complexity, as evidenced by the discovery of new functional components and pathways of the RAS. In recent years, the pathophysiological implications of the system have been the main focus of attention, and inhibitors of the RAS such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin (ANG) II receptor blockers have become important clinical tools in the treatment of cardiovascular and renal diseases such as hypertension, heart failure, and diabetic nephropathy. Nevertheless, the tissue RAS also plays an important role in mediating diverse physiological functions. These focus not only on the classical actions of ANG on the cardiovascular system, namely, the maintenance of cardiovascular homeostasis, but also on other functions. Recently, the research efforts studying these noncardiovascular effects of the RAS have intensified, and a large body of data are now available to support the existence of numerous organ-based RAS exerting diverse physiological effects. ANG II has direct effects at the cellular level and can influence, for example, cell growth and differentiation, but also may play a role as a mediator of apoptosis. These universal paracrine and autocrine actions may be important in many organ systems and can mediate important physiological stimuli. Transgenic overexpression and knock-out strategies of RAS genes in animals have also shown a central functional role of the RAS in prenatal development. Taken together, these findings may become increasingly important in the study of organ physiology but also for a fresh look at the implications of these findings for organ pathophysiology.
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- Martin Paul
- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Massmann GA, Zhang J, Rose JC, Figueroa JP. Acute and long-term effects of clinical doses of antenatal glucocorticoids in the developing fetal sheep kidney. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 13:174-80. [PMID: 16638587 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2006.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2005] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The controversy regarding potential long-term side effects of antenatal steroid administration for accelerating fetal lung maturation is still unresolved despite more than 30 years of experience. Studies in animals have demonstrated that administration of glucocorticoids during pregnancy alters renal expression of several key regulatory molecules at different developmental stages followed in most cases with the development of hypertension in the adult. We studied the effects of betamethasone on the expression of (1) NA,K-ATPAse pump; (2) the Na/H exchanger 3 (NAHE3); (3) angiotensin receptor (AT1 and AT2); and (4) the type 1 dopamine receptor (D1R). METHODS Pregnant sheep were treated with either 0.17 mg/kg betamethasone or vehicle 24 hours apart at 80 and 81 days' gestation. Fetal kidneys were harvested at 81 and 135 days' gestation. Protein and mRNA levels were measured in kidney cortex. RESULTS Betamethasone had acute and long-term effects on fetal kidney cortex gene expression. Acutely, mRNA abundance for AT2 was significantly lower and that of NHE3 significantly higher than in controls (0.4 +/- 0.02 vs 0.7 +/- 0.05; 1.2 +/- 0.16 vs 0.4 +/- 0.04; P < .05). At 135 days' gestation, AT2 receptor abundance remained lower than control (0.2 +/- 0.02 vs 0.4 +/- 0.02; P < .05), whereas D1R expression was higher (0.8 +/- 0.17 vs 0.5 +/- 0.06; P < .05). No changes in Na,K-ATPase of AT1 receptor at either of the two time points studied were observed. Antenatal steroid administration was not associated with premature labor or a reduction in either body weight or kidney weight. CONCLUSION Our findings strongly suggest that antenatal glucocorticoid administration according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus guidelines may alter human fetal renal development. Further studies are needed to establish a direct relationship between alterations in fetal renal gene expression and the development of hypertension in adulthood.
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- G Angela Massmann
- Center for Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
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Liu J, Chen K, Valego NK, Carey LC, Rose JC. Ontogeny and effects of thyroid hormone on beta1-adrenergic receptor mRNA expression in ovine fetal kidney cortex. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 12:563-9. [PMID: 16325745 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsgi.2005.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Previous studies indicate that thyroidectomy (TX) decreases renin gene expression in ovine fetal renal cortex in late gestation. Fetal ovine renin-containing renocortical cells become increasingly responsive to beta-adrenergic stimulation as gestation proceeds. Increases in plasma thyroid hormone concentrations parallel this change, suggesting that there is a positive developmental relationship between the two. To examine this hypothesis, we determined the ontogeny of beta1-adrenergic receptor (beta1R) mRNA expression, and the effect of thyroid hormone on in vivo and in vitro expression in fetal sheep. METHODS Renocortical tissue was obtained from naive, TX, and sham-operated fetuses to determine beta1R mRNA levels. Renin-containing renocortical cells from TX or sham fetuses were treated with isoproterenol (Iso) or forskolin (FSK) for analysis of cellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels. Renocortical cells from naive fetuses were treated with triiodothyronine (T3) to assess cellular beta1R mRNA levels. Fetal plasma thyroxine (T4) level was determined. RESULTS Renocortical beta1R mRNA expression increased significantly between 100 and 140 days' gestational age (dGA), while TX attenuated this increase (P <.01). Renocortical cellular cAMP levels were higher in sham compared to TX fetuses following incubation with Iso or FSK (P <.05). Cells incubated with T3 exhibited significantly increased beta1R mRNA expression (P <.05). CONCLUSION The data suggest that thyroid hormone may be involved in modulating ovine fetal renocortical beta1R gene expression during development. We speculate that the increased beta1R mRNA expression in renal cortical cells as development progresses may mediate the increases in renin gene response to beta-adrenergic stimulation in late gestation.
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- Jingfang Liu
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
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Yum MK, Kim CR, Park EY, Kim JH, Park KJ. Different etiologies of intrauterine growth restriction and different consistencies in the occurrence of abnormal local nonstationarity of fetal heart rate. Clin Exp Hypertens 2006; 28:147-56. [PMID: 16546840 DOI: 10.1080/10641960500468391] [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: 10/25/2022]
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Fetuses with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) can be programmed in utero to develop hypertension in adult life. The etiology of IUGR in human fetuses is not uniform. The present study demonstrated that different etiologies of growth restriction, idiopathic cause, and pregnancy-induced hypertension, produce different consistencies in the occurrence of an abnormal local very-short-term nonstationarity of heart rate during intrauterine period. Whether the consistent abnormality that was found in the growth-restricted fetuses associated with pregnancy-induced hypertension is linked to the different risk of later hypertension requires future studies.
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- Myung-Kul Yum
- Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
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Chappellaz ML, Smith FG. Dose-dependent systemic and renal haemodynamic effects of angiotensin II in conscious lambs: role of angiotensin AT1and AT2receptors. Exp Physiol 2005; 90:837-45. [PMID: 16091404 DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2005.031195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The present experiments were designed to measure the effects of acute administration of angiotensin (ANG) II on mean arterial pressure (MAP) and renal blood flow (RBF) in conscious, chronically instrumented lambs at two different stages of postnatal maturation, and to determine the receptors through which these effects of ANG II are elicited. Experiments consisted of haemodynamic measurements for 10 s before (Control) and for 60 s after intravenous (i.v.) administration of one of 11 doses of ANG II (0-200 ng kg(-1)). Administration of ANG II was associated with a dose-dependent increase in MAP to a maximal effective concentration (EC100) of 100 ng kg(-1) in lambs aged 1 and 6 weeks. Administration of ANG II has caused a dose-dependent decrease in RBF, with EC100 values of 50 ng kg(-1) in 1-week-old lambs, and 25 ng kg(-1) in 6-week-old lambs. Responses to ANG II at the EC(50) were also measured in the presence of the specific ANG II AT(1) receptor antagonist, ZD 7155, the specific AT2 receptor antagonist, PD 123319, and vehicle. Administration of ZD 7155, but not PD 123319 or vehicle, abolished the MAP and RBF responses to ANG II in both age groups. In addition, MAP decreased and RBF increased in both age groups after administration of ZD 7155, but not PD 123319; the effects were similar in both age groups. These data provide new information that pressor and renal vasoconstrictor effects of ANG II during the first 6 weeks of postnatal life in lambs are elicited by activation of AT1 but not AT2 receptors.
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- Mona L Chappellaz
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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McMillen IC, Robinson JS. Developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome: prediction, plasticity, and programming. Physiol Rev 2005; 85:571-633. [PMID: 15788706 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00053.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1294] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The "fetal" or "early" origins of adult disease hypothesis was originally put forward by David Barker and colleagues and stated that environmental factors, particularly nutrition, act in early life to program the risks for adverse health outcomes in adult life. This hypothesis has been supported by a worldwide series of epidemiological studies that have provided evidence for the association between the perturbation of the early nutritional environment and the major risk factors (hypertension, insulin resistance, and obesity) for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome in adult life. It is also clear from experimental studies that a range of molecular, cellular, metabolic, neuroendocrine, and physiological adaptations to changes in the early nutritional environment result in a permanent alteration of the developmental pattern of cellular proliferation and differentiation in key tissue and organ systems that result in pathological consequences in adult life. This review focuses on those experimental studies that have investigated the critical windows during which perturbations of the intrauterine environment have major effects, the nature of the epigenetic, structural, and functional adaptive responses which result in a permanent programming of cardiovascular and metabolic function, and the role of the interaction between the pre- and postnatal environment in determining final health outcomes.
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- I Caroline McMillen
- Discipline of Physiology, School of Molecular and Biomeducal Sciences, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Chen K, Carey LC, Liu J, Valego NK, Tatter SB, Rose JC. The effect of hypothalamo-pituitary disconnection on the renin-angiotensin system in the late-gestation fetal sheep. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2004; 288:R1279-87. [PMID: 15604301 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00560.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The activity of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) increases significantly in the late-gestation fetal sheep. Fetal cortisol is also increased during this time, and it is thought that the increase in cortisol may modulate the RAS changes. Previous studies have examined the effects of cortisol infusion on RAS activity, but the effects of blocking the peripartum increase in cortisol concentrations on the developmental changes in the RAS are not known. Therefore, we utilized the technique of hypothalamic-pituitary disconnection (HPD), which prevents the cortisol surge from occurring, to investigate the importance of the late-gestation increase in cortisol on the ontogenic changes in RAS activity. HPD of fetal sheep was performed at 120 days of gestational age (dGA), and fetuses were delivered between 135 and 139 dGA. Control fetuses were sham operated. HPD blocked the late-gestation cortisol increase but did not alter renal renin mRNA, renal renin or prorenin protein content, nor plasma renin levels compared with sham operated. However, HPD fetuses had increased ANG II receptor subtype 1 (AT1) mRNA and protein expression in the kidney and lungs. ANG II receptor subtype 2 (AT2) expression was not altered in these tissues at either mRNA or protein level. HPD did not change AT1 or AT2 mRNA in the left ventricle but did result in decreased protein levels for both receptors. These studies demonstrate that blockade of the naturally occurring increase in fetal cortisol concentration in late gestation is associated with tissue-specific alterations in expression of AT1 and AT2 receptors. These changes may impact on fetal tissue maturation and hence have consequences in postnatal life.
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- Kai Chen
- Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1066, USA
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The renin angiotensin system plays an important role in the control of body fluid and electrolyte homeostasis and blood pressure regulation. Angiotensin II is the most effector hormone of this system and functions mainly through stimulation of its subtype receptors, namely, the AT1 and AT2 receptors. Most of the known physiological and pathologic effects of angiotensin II are mediated through stimulation of the AT1 receptor. The knowledge about the involvement of the AT2 receptor in physiological and pathologic processes is still evolving. In the kidney, both the AT1 and AT2 receptors contribute to the regulation of renal hemodynamic and tubular functions. Also, these receptors regulate renal cellular growth and matrix formation. However, AT2 receptor possesses functions that counteract the effects of the AT1 receptor. The balance between the AT1 and AT2 receptors can determine the renal status in health and disease.
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- Helmy M Siragy
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, 22908, USA.
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Recent evidence, from both epidemiological and animal experimental studies, suggest that the very first environment, the intrauterine, is extremely important in determining the future health of the individual. Genetic and 'lifestyle' factors impinge on, and can exacerbate, a 'programming' effect of an adverse fetal environment. In this review, we present compelling evidence to suggest that one of the major organs affected by an unfavourable prenatal environment is the kidney. Many of the factors that can affect fetal renal development (i.e. exposure to excess glucocorticoids, insufficient vitamin A, protein/calorie malnutrition (in rats) and alterations in the intrarenal renin angiotensinogen system), also produce hypertension in the adult animal. When nephron number is compromised during kidney development, maladaptive functional changes occur and can lead, eventually, to hypertension and/or renal disease. Surprisingly, it is during the very earliest stages of kidney development that the vulnerability to these effects occurs.
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- Karen M Moritz
- Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Australia
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There is evidence to suggest that an individual's susceptibility to cardiovascular disease cannot be entirely explained by differences in life style factors (i.e., low physical activity, high fat/salt diet), or genetic causes, but may also be influenced by factors encountered during intrauterine life. Epidemiological studies found the link between low birth weight for gestational age (a broad index of sub-optimal intrauterine environment) and increased incidence of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in adulthood. Many animal models in which the intrauterine environment was altered during early/late or throughout gestation demonstrated long-term effects on adult health. In general stress in early gestation is more likely to be associated with adult cardiovascular disease including hypertension, whereas late gestation stress may also be associated with adult hypotension in addition to metabolic/endocrine abnormalities. Two systems have been widely hypothesised to serve as mechanisms via which adverse prenatal influences impinge on adult cardiovascular and metabolic disease; hippocampal-hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis (HHPA) and renin-angiotensin system (RAS). Interestingly, at least in our animal model of adult hypertension after brief/early prenatal glucocorticoid exposure, HHPA axis is not altered when studied either in late gestation or at several stages during adulthood. However, our more recent results, using the same animal model, suggest a major role for the central and renal RAS. This review will mainly focus on animal models and potential mechanisms via which a perturbed intrauterine environment (undernutrition or steroid exposure) lead to adult cardiovascular and/or metabolic disease.
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- M Dodic
- Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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When angiotensin II or AT1 receptor is experimentally inhibited during the perinatal period, either by pharmacological intervention or genetic manipulation, the kidney develops with profound structural abnormalities. Most prominent are hypertrophy of arterial vasculatures and atrophy of the papilla. Although the mechanism by which the vascular hypertrophy occurs remains unknown, study of the atrophic papilla gives us a new clue for understanding the physiological role of angiotensin. Mutant mice completely devoid of AT1 receptor fail to develop the renal pelvis and the ureteral peristaltic movement. Normally, angiotensin and AT1 receptor are transiently up-regulated around the renal outlet at birth. Thus angiotensin II induces the peristaltic machinery during the perinatal period in a timely fashion to accommodate the dramatic increase in urine production that occurs during the transition from intra- to extra-uterine life. Further studies revealed that in adult animals angiotensin augments the peristaltic movement when the urinary tract is partially obstructed, thereby protecting the kidney from hydronephrosis. This newly discovered function of angiotensin to protect kidney architecture at the time of urine outflow obstruction is reminiscent of its similar kidney structure-protecting function that is active during arterial blood flow obstruction.
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- Taiji Matsusaka
- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
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Dodic M, Baird R, Hantzis V, Koukoulas I, Moritz K, Peers A, Wintour EM. Organs/systems potentially involved in one model of programmed hypertension in sheep. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2001; 28:952-6. [PMID: 11703404 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2001.03556.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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1. When pregnant ewes and their fetuses are exposed to the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone for 2 days early in pregnancy (days 26-28; term 145-150 days), female offspring have increased blood pressure relative to a control group. In one series, this was shown to be due to increased cardiac output, concomitant with a reset mean arterial pressure/heart rate reflex. The first group of such animals had, by the age of 7 years, left ventricular hypertrophy and reduced cardiac functional capacity. 2. The elevation in blood pressure is not maintained by any change in the peripheral renin-angiotensin system (RAS). 3. There is, however, preliminary evidence that some aspects of local RAS (particularly in the kidney and brain) could have participated in the 'programming' event. The levels of mRNA for angiotensin II receptors (AT1, AT2) and angiotensinogen are increased in the kidney of such dexamethasone-treated fetuses in late gestation (130 days), some 100 days after steroid treatment. Similar increases in AT1 mRNA in the medulla oblongata of the fetal brain and large increases of mRNA for angiotensinogen occur in the hypothalamus. 4. These findings, together with evidence from the literature, suggest that both the kidney and parts of the brain are affected by events that also 'program' high blood pressure in the offspring of animals in which the intra-uterine environment has been perturbed at some stage.
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- M Dodic
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Angiotensin II (ANG II) contracts umbilical arteries and has been hypothesized to regulate fetal blood pressure primarily by altering umbilical vascular resistance. To determine whether systemic arteries in term fetal sheep are sensitive to ANG II, isometric contraction of endothelium-intact isolated fetal renal, mesenteric, and umbilical arteries in response to ANG II was studied. ANG II (10(-7) M) elicited contractile responses in all three vessels (43 +/- 8%, 99 +/- 21%, and 105 +/- 5% of the maximal response seen with 90 mM KCl for renal, mesenteric, and umbilical arteries, respectively). The time course of the contractile responses differed among the vessels: renal and mesenteric arteries exhibited rapid transient contraction followed by relaxation, whereas umbilical artery displayed a more slowly developing but sustained contraction (1 +/- 0%, 3 +/- 1%,and 93 +/- 4% of maximal contractile response at 5 min, for renal, mesenteric, and umbilical arteries, respectively). The AT1 receptor antagonist, losartan (10(-6) M), abolished contractile responses in renal and mesenteric arteries but only slowed the contraction in umbilical artery in response to ANG II and had no effect on maximal tension. AT2 receptor blockade (PD 123319, 10(-7) M) had no significant effect on the response to ANG II in any vessel. Indomethacin (10(-6) M) significantly potentiated contraction to ANG II in renal and mesenteric but not umbilical arteries. Northern and Western blot analyses demonstrated the presence of AT1 mRNA and protein in all three vessels. Immunostaining for the AT1 receptor was present in endothelium and the tunica media. These findings demonstrate the AT1 receptor is present and functionally active in fetal systemic arteries and are consistent with previous findings that the umbilical circulation displays a greater responsiveness to ANG II than the systemic vasculature.
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- J L Segar
- Department of Pediatrics and the Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.
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Peers A, Campbell DJ, Wintour EM, Dodic M. The peripheral renin-angiotensin system is not involved in the hypertension of sheep exposed to prenatal dexamethasone. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2001; 28:306-11. [PMID: 11251645 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2001.03443.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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1. Fetal exposure to an adverse intrauterine environment has been linked with cardiovascular and metabolic disease later in life. We have shown previously, in sheep, that brief exposure (48 h) to maternally administered dexamethasone (0.28 mg/kg per day) at 27 days of gestation (prenatal treatment group (PTG) 1; term approximately 150 days), but not at 64 days of gestation (PTG2), produced hypertensive offspring at 40 months of age. The present study aimed to determine whether the elevated blood pressure in these sheep was associated with an altered peripheral renin-angiotensin system (RAS). 2. Measurements of the basal levels of the RAS components (renin, angiotensinogen, angiotensin (Ang) I, angiotensin- converting enzyme (ACE), AngII and Ang-(1-7)) were made. In addition, we studied the effect of a peripherally administered AngII type 1 (AT1) receptor antagonist (irbesartan at 1.02 mg/kg per h) on mean arterial pressure (MAP) over 4.5 h. 3. There was no significant difference in basal plasma concentrations of the components of the RAS measured between control (n = 7) and PTG1 (n = 5) or PTG2 (n = 6) animals. The MAP in PTG1 was significantly higher than in the control group during both vehicle infusion and AT1 receptor blockade. The effect of 4.5 h irbesartan (1.02 mg/kg per h) infusion on blood pressure was similar between the groups. 4. In conclusion, intrauterine exposure for 48 h to maternally administered dexamethasone at 27 days of gestation caused elevated blood pressure in adult sheep that does not appear to be associated with an alteration in the peripheral RAS.
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- A Peers
- Howard Florey Institute at the University of Melbourne, Parkville and St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
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Peers A, Hantzis V, Dodic M, Koukoulas I, Gibson A, Baird R, Salemi R, Wintour EM. Functional glucocorticoid receptors in the mesonephros of the ovine fetus. Kidney Int 2001; 59:425-33. [PMID: 11168924 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.059002425.x] [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: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND At 27 days of gestation in the ovine fetus (term = 145 to 150 days), the only kidney is the mesonephros, and allantoic fluid represents fetal urine. The hypothesis tested in this study was that functional glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) are present in this early mesonephric kidney. METHODS Pregnant ewes, between 26 and 30 days, were infused with saline, dexamethasone (0.48 mg/hour), cortisol (5 mg/hour), or aldosterone (10 microg/hour) for 48 hours and were then killed for collection of fetuses and fetal fluids. GR mRNA was measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction in whole fetuses, and the location of gene expression was determined by hybridization histochemistry. RESULTS Significant changes in allantoic fluid composition were produced by the exposure of the fetus to maternally infused synthetic (dexamethasone) and natural (cortisol) glucocorticoids, over a period of two days, compared with fetuses of ewes infused with vehicle (isotonic saline; N = 8) or aldosterone (N = 8). Volume of fluid was unchanged by any treatment, but both dexamethasone (N = 10) and cortisol (N = 8) caused significant (P < 0.05) decreases in sodium and chloride concentrations and increases in concentrations of potassium, urea, glucose, and fructose. GR mRNA was detected in equivalent concentrations in the whole fetuses of saline, dexamethasone, and cortisol treatments. The GR mRNA levels were significantly decreased in the aldosterone group. By hybridization histochemistry, GR mRNA was detected in most of the tubular cells of the mesonephros. CONCLUSION These results suggest that functional GRs are present in the early ovine mesonephros.
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- A Peers
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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In the adult animal, ANG-(1-7) may counterbalance some effects of ANG II. Its effects in the fetus are unknown. Basal ANG-(1-7), ANG I, ANG II, and renin concentrations were measured in plasma from ovine fetuses and their mothers (n = 10) at 111 days of gestation. In the fetus, concentrations of ANG I, ANG-(1-7), and ANG II were 86 +/- 21, 13 +/- 2, and 14 +/- 2 fmol/ml, respectively. In the ewe, concentrations of ANG I were significantly lower (20 +/- 4 fmol/ml, P < 0.05) as were concentrations of ANG-(1-7) (2.9 +/- 0.6 fmol/ml), whereas ANG II concentrations were not different (10 +/- 1 fmol/ml). Plasma renin concentrations were higher in the fetus (4.8 +/- 1.1 pmol ANG I x ml(-1) x h(-1)) than in the ewe (0.9 +/- 0.2 pmol x ml(-1) x h(-1), P < 0.05). Infusion of ANG-(1-7) (approximately 9 microg/h) for a 3-day period caused a significant increase in plasma concentrations of ANG-(1-7) reaching a maximum of 448 +/- 146 fmol/ml on day 3 of infusion. Plasma levels of ANG I and II as well as renin were unchanged by the infusion. Urine flow rate, glomerular filtration rate, and fetal arterial blood pressure did not change and were not different than values in fetuses receiving a saline infusion for 3 days (n = 5). However, the osmolality of amniotic and allantoic fluid was significantly higher in fetuses that received ANG-(1-7). Also, compared with the saline-infused animals, mRNA expression levels of renin, the AT(1) receptor, and AT(2) receptor were elevated in kidneys of fetuses that received infusions of ANG-(1-7). Infusion of an ANG-(1-7) antagonist ([D-Ala(7)]-ANG-(1-7), 20 microg/h) for 3 days had no effect on fetal blood pressure or renal function. In conclusion, although infusion of ANG-(1-7) did not affect fetal urine flow rate, glomerular filtration rate, or blood pressure, changes in fetal fluids and gene expression indicate that ANG-(1-7) may play a role in the fetal kidney.
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- K M Moritz
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia
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Moritz K, Koukoulas I, Albiston A, Wintour EM. Angiotensin II infusion to the midgestation ovine fetus: effects on the fetal kidney. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2000; 279:R1290-7. [PMID: 11003995 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2000.279.4.r1290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Renal and cardiovascular responses to an intravenous infusion of ANG II (1 microg/h) or saline for 3 days were examined in ovine fetuses at midgestation (75-85 days of gestation, term 150 days). ANG II caused an increase in fetal blood pressure (36 +/- 2 to 44 +/- 3 mmHg) and urine flow rate (8 +/- 2 to a maximum of 18 +/- 6 ml/h). Plasma renin concentrations decreased in ANG II-infused fetuses. Fetal fluids (amniotic and allantoic) did not differ in volume or composition between the groups when measured at postmortem. There was no difference in the expression levels of the mRNA for the angiotensin (AT(1) or AT(2)) receptors between the two groups when measured by an RNase protection assay. However, there was a significant decline in renin and AT(1) receptor gene expression when measured by a real-time polymerase chain reaction method. These results indicate that ANG II is diuretic and pressor when infused at midgestation. ANG II can feedback to decrease renin secretion by the fetal kidney, and this may occur by decreased renin gene expression.
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- K Moritz
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Australia
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Arima S, Ito S. Angiotensin II type 2 receptors in the kidney: evidence for endothelial-cell-mediated renal vasodilatation. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2000; 15:448-51. [PMID: 10727534 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.4.448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
MESH Headings
- Angiotensin II/antagonists & inhibitors
- Angiotensin II/metabolism
- Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists
- Animals
- Antihypertensive Agents/pharmacology
- Cell Division
- Endothelium, Vascular/cytology
- Endothelium, Vascular/drug effects
- Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism
- Humans
- Hypertension, Renal/metabolism
- Hypertension, Renal/pathology
- Hypertension, Renal/prevention & control
- Kidney/blood supply
- Kidney/drug effects
- Kidney/metabolism
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2
- Receptors, Angiotensin/metabolism
- Renal Circulation/drug effects
- Renal Circulation/physiology
- Signal Transduction
- Vasodilation/drug effects
- Vasodilation/physiology
- Vasodilator Agents/pharmacology
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Johnston H, Koukoulas I, Jeyaseelan K, Armugam A, Earnest L, Baird R, Dawson N, Ferraro T, Wintour EM. Ontogeny of aquaporins 1 and 3 in ovine placenta and fetal membranes. Placenta 2000; 21:88-99. [PMID: 10692256 DOI: 10.1053/plac.1999.0445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A sensitive and highly reproducible method has been used to show that Aquaporin 3 (AQP(3)) mRNA is present in the ovine placenta and chorion from at least 60 days of gestation (term=145-150d) with levels increasing substantially (>16 fold) at 100 days, and remaining constant thereafter. By immuno- and hybridization histochemistry, the epithelial cells expressing AQP(3)were found to be the trophoblast cells. Some AQP(3)was expressed in fibroblasts of the amnion and allantois but none was expressed in the epithelia of these membranes. AQP(1)was expressed in endothelial cells of fetal and maternal blood vessels but not in any epithelial cell of the ovine placenta and fetal membranes. The level of AQP(3)expression is consistent with known ovine placental permeabilities to water, glycerol and urea.
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- H Johnston
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Australia
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Wintour EM, Moritz K, Butkus A, Baird R, Albiston A, Tenis N. Ontogeny and regulation of the AT1 and AT2 receptors in the ovine fetal adrenal gland. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1999; 157:161-70. [PMID: 10619407 DOI: 10.1016/s0303-7207(99)00149-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The expression and regulation of the receptors for angiotensin II (both AT1 and AT2) were examined in the ovine fetal adrenal gland by RNase protection assay (RPA), in situ hybridisation histochemistry, immunohistochemistry and Western blotting. Both mRNA and protein for the AT1 receptor were present in the zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata of the cortex, but not in the medulla, from as early as these zonas were distinguishable (60 days of gestation; term is 145-150 days), and even present in the steroidogenic cells of the unzoned gland at 40 days. The mRNA for the AT2 receptor was present in the same locations (but never in the medulla) from 40-130 days, and declined to extremely low levels after 140 days. The infusion of ang II, 1 microg/h, for 3 days, at mid-gestation (76 +/- 2 days) caused a significant decrease in mRNA for AT1 but no change in AT2 levels. Thus, the biologically active receptor (in terms of aldosterone stimulation) is present in the ovine fetal adrenal from very early in development, and can be down-regulated by mid-gestation.
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MESH Headings
- Adrenal Glands/chemistry
- Adrenal Glands/embryology
- Angiotensin II/pharmacology
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Fetus/anatomy & histology
- Fetus/chemistry
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/drug effects
- Gestational Age
- Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases/analysis
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2
- Receptors, Angiotensin/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Angiotensin/genetics
- Ribonucleases/metabolism
- Sheep/embryology
- Sheep/genetics
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- E M Wintour
- Howard Florey Institute of Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
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Gobet R, Park JM, Nguyen HT, Chang B, Cisek LJ, Peters CA. Renal renin-angiotensin system dysregulation caused by partial bladder outlet obstruction in fetal sheep. Kidney Int 1999; 56:1654-61. [PMID: 10571773 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.00732.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND To determine whether fetal renal obstruction activates the renal renin-angiotensin system (RAS), an important mediator in normal kidney development and obstructive nephropathy, we used a model of fetal partial bladder outlet obstruction (PBOO). METHODS Total RNA and protein was extracted from kidney of sheep fetuses with partial bladder outlet obstruction created at 95 days gestation, after 2 (N = 6) and 5 weeks of obstruction (term; N = 6), and from normal fetal sheep at various time points between 60 and 135 days of gestation (total N = 19). Relative levels of mRNA for renin, angiotensinogen, type 1 and 2 angiotensin II (Ang II) receptors (AT-1 and AT-2), and transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) were assessed by semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Expression levels of AT-2 receptor protein were measured by Western blot analysis. RESULTS Renin mRNA expression was increased (250%) after two weeks of obstruction. In normal fetuses, AT-1 expression was low at 60 to 75 days of gestation and increased toward the end of gestation, whereas AT-2 expression showed a reversed pattern. At 109 days, PBOO caused an increased expression of AT-2 mRNA compared with normals (400%). Correspondingly, AT-2 receptor protein was more abundant in obstructed kidneys. TGF-beta1 mRNA expression was significantly increased in obstructed kidneys at 109 days gestation. CONCLUSIONS These observations confirm the reciprocal developmental regulation of AT-1 and AT-2 receptors' expression, suggesting their functional role in renal development. Partial bladder outlet obstruction produces specific alterations: increased renin expression and altered balance of receptor subtypes, which may induce altered functional and vascular regulation of the obstructed fetal kidney. TGF-beta1, a mediator of Ang II-induced fibrosis, may play a role in inducing and propagating interstitial fibrosis.
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- R Gobet
- Department of Urology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Giammattei CE, Strandhoy JW, Rose JC. Regulation of in vitro renin secretion by ANG II feedback manipulation in vivo in the ovine fetus. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 277:R1230-8. [PMID: 10516266 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.277.4.r1230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The renin-angiotensin system is critically important to fetal cardiovascular function and organ development. The feedback regulation of renin secretion by ANG II develops early in gestation yet does not linearly progress from fetal life to adulthood. Renin secretion is elevated in late gestation compared with earlier or postnatal time periods, which suggests that some component of the negative feedback regulation of renin secretion is less sensitive in late gestation. We examined in fetal sheep the age-related consequence of chronic in vivo manipulation of ANG II on renal renin secretion measured in vitro. Immature (101-103 days of gestation) and mature (130-133 days of gestation) fetuses were treated for 72 h with enalaprilat, ANG II or vehicle. Content and basal and isoproterenol-stimulated secretion of prorenin (PR) and active renin (AR) from fetal kidney cortical slices were determined. Enalaprilat pretreatment in vivo increased renal renin content and basal and stimulated secretion of PR and AR in vitro even in immature animals. Immunohistochemical localization showed that enalaprilat treatment caused an age-related recruitment of renin-containing juxtaglomerular cells. Conversely, ANG II pretreatment decreased basal and stimulated PR and AR secretion from immature fetal kidneys, but only inhibited PR secretion from mature kidneys. It also caused an age-related decrease in the percentage of renin-containing juxtaglomerular cells. These results suggest that ANG II feedback modulates not only the synthesis and content of renin, but the sensitivity of the coupling between stimulus and secretion. A critical observation of our study is that the higher renal tissue concentrations of prorenin and active renin in late gestation may be a consequence of reduced sensitivity to ANG II feedback; this is consistent with the increased plasma concentrations of renin found in near-term mammals.
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- C E Giammattei
- Perinatal Research Laboratories, Department of Physiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
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Zhuo J, Moeller I, Jenkins T, Chai SY, Allen AM, Ohishi M, Mendelsohn FA. Mapping tissue angiotensin-converting enzyme and angiotensin AT1, AT2 and AT4 receptors. J Hypertens 1998; 16:2027-37. [PMID: 9886893 DOI: 10.1097/00004872-199816121-00026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) functions as both a circulating endocrine system and a tissue paracrine/autocrine system. As a circulating peptide, angiotensin II (Ang II) plays a prominent role in blood-pressure control and body fluid and electrolyte balance by acting on the AT1 receptor in the brain and peripheral tissues. As a paracrine/autocrine peptide, locally formed Ang II also plays additional roles in tissues involving the regulation of regional haemodynamics, cell growth and remodelling, and neurotransmitter release. Evidence is emerging that Ang II is not the only active peptide of the RAS, and other Ang II fragments may also have important biological activities. OBJECTIVES To provide a morphological basis for understanding novel actions of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), Ang II and related peptides in tissues, this article will review the localization of ACE and AT1, AT2 and AT4 receptors in the central nervous system, blood vessels and kidney. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Autoradiographic mapping of the major components of the RAS has proved a valuable strategy to reveal, or suggest, cellular sites of novel actions for Ang II and related peptides in tissues. First, colocalization of ACE and AT1 receptors in the substantia nigra, the caudate nucleus and putamen of human and rat brain, which contain the dopamine-synthesizing neurons, suggests that the central RAS may be important in modulating central dopamine release. Secondly, the distribution of AT4 receptors with a striking association with cholinergic neurons, motor and sensory nuclei in the brain reveals that Ang IV may modulate central motor and sensory activities and memory. Thirdly, the occurrence of high levels of ACE and AT1 and/or AT2 receptors in the adventitia of blood vessels suggests important paracrine roles of the vascular RAS. Finally, the identification of abundant AT1 receptor and elucidation of its roles in the renomedullary interstitial cells of the kidney may provide a new impetus to study further the role of Ang II in the regulation of renal medullary function and blood pressure. Overall, circulating and locally produced Ang II and related peptides may exert a remarkable range of actions in the brain, kidney and cardiovascular system through multiple angiotensin receptors.
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- J Zhuo
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
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Wintour EM, Alcorn D, Albiston A, Boon WC, Butkus A, Earnest L, Moritz K, Shandley L. The renin-angiotensin system and the development of the kidney and adrenal in sheep. CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY. SUPPLEMENT 1998; 25:S97-100. [PMID: 9809201 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02309.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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1. The earliest form of the kidney, the pronephros, does not really occur in the ovine embryo; instead, a giant glomerulus forms at the anterior end of the mesonephros. 2. In the sheep, the mesonephros is present from 11-38% of total gestation (150 days) and produces a dilute urine, as well as expressing the genes for erythropoietin, renin, angiotensinogen, angiotensin-converting enzyme and the angiotensin II (AngII) receptors AT1 and AT2. 3. The ovine metanephros begins to develop at 18% of gestation and nephrogenesis is complete several weeks before birth. All components of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) are expressed from at least 27% of gestation. 4. Both AT1 and AT2 receptors are expressed by the adrenocortical cells early in gestation but, at mid-gestation, exogenous AngII does not stimulate aldosterone secretion in vivo. 5. Preliminary results suggest that AngII has important roles in renal development in the ovine foetus but the role(s), if any, in adrenal development, remains to be investigated.
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- E M Wintour
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. Marelyn_Wintour-Coghlan.HFI.@muwaye.unimelb.edu.au
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Gimonet V, Bussieres L, Medjebeur AA, Gasser B, Lelongt B, Laborde K. Nephrogenesis and angiotensin II receptor subtypes gene expression in the fetal lamb. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 274:F1062-9. [PMID: 9841497 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1998.274.6.f1062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To investigate the role of angiotensin II (ANG II) in nephrogenesis, a developmental study of renal AT1 and AT2 receptor mRNA expression was performed in parallel with the quantitative and qualitative analysis of metanephros development in fetal lamb from 60 to 140 days of gestation. Both ANG II receptor subtypes were expressed early during nephrogenesis but displayed specific spatial and temporal distribution during gestation. High-AT2 mRNA expression took place in the outermost nephrogenic area and in the undifferentiated mesenchymal cells surrounding the ampulla; level of AT2 expression in this localization followed closely glomeruli proliferation rate and disappeared after nephrogenesis completion (>120 days). AT2 mRNA was also detected in the differentiated epithelial cells of macula densa of maturing glomeruli. Although most of AT1 mRNA labeling was found in the mesangial cells of maturing glomeruli, where it persisted after nephrogenesis completion, additional labeling was found in undifferentiated cells, in cells invading the inferior cleft of S-shaped bodies (80 days), and in medullar cells between tubules (120 days). Our results suggest that each receptor subtype has a specific role in renal morphogenesis, i.e., AT2 in mesenchymal proliferation or apoptosis and AT1 in vascular smooth muscle cells differentiation.
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- V Gimonet
- Department of Physiology, Necker-Enfants Maldes Hospital, Paris, France
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