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Wang MY, Zhang Z, Zhao S, Onodera T, Sun XN, Zhu Q, Li C, Li N, Chen S, Paredes M, Gautron L, Charron MJ, Marciano DK, Gordillo R, Drucker DJ, Scherer PE. Downregulation of the kidney glucagon receptor, essential for renal function and systemic homeostasis, contributes to chronic kidney disease. Cell Metab 2024; 36:575-597.e7. [PMID: 38237602 PMCID: PMC10932880 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Revised: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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The glucagon receptor (GCGR) in the kidney is expressed in nephron tubules. In humans and animal models with chronic kidney disease, renal GCGR expression is reduced. However, the role of kidney GCGR in normal renal function and in disease development has not been addressed. Here, we examined its role by analyzing mice with constitutive or conditional kidney-specific loss of the Gcgr. Adult renal Gcgr knockout mice exhibit metabolic dysregulation and a functional impairment of the kidneys. These mice exhibit hyperaminoacidemia associated with reduced kidney glucose output, oxidative stress, enhanced inflammasome activity, and excess lipid accumulation in the kidney. Upon a lipid challenge, they display maladaptive responses with acute hypertriglyceridemia and chronic proinflammatory and profibrotic activation. In aged mice, kidney Gcgr ablation elicits widespread renal deposition of collagen and fibronectin, indicative of fibrosis. Taken together, our findings demonstrate an essential role of the renal GCGR in normal kidney metabolic and homeostatic functions. Importantly, mice deficient for kidney Gcgr recapitulate some of the key pathophysiological features of chronic kidney disease.
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- May-Yun Wang
- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Center for Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Lunenfeld-TanenbaumResearchInstitute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON M5G1X5, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Neurotransmitter and Neurotransmitter Receptor Expression in the Saccule of the Human Vestibular System. Prog Neurobiol 2022; 212:102238. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Takahashi-Iwanaga H, Kimura S, Konno K, Watanabe M, Iwanaga T. Intrarenal signaling mediated by CCK plays a role in salt intake-induced natriuresis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2017; 313:F20-F29. [DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00539.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Revised: 03/07/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The natriuretic hormone CCK exhibits its gene transcripts in total kidney extracts. To test the possibility of CCK acting as an intrarenal mediator of sodium excretion, we examined mouse kidneys by 1) an in situ hybridization technique for CCK mRNA in animals fed a normal- or a high-sodium diet; 2) immuno-electron microscopy for the CCK peptide, 3) an in situ hybridization method and immunohistochemistry for the CCK-specific receptor CCKAR; 4) confocal image analysis of receptor-mediated Ca2+ responses in isolated renal tubules; and 5) metabolic cage experiments for the measurement of urinary sodium excretion in high-salt-fed mice either treated or untreated with the CCKAR antagonist lorglumide. Results showed the CCK gene to be expressed intensely in the inner medulla and moderately in the inner stripe of the outer medulla, with the expression in the latter being enhanced by high sodium intake. Immunoreactivity for the CCK peptide was localized to the rough endoplasmic reticulum of the medullary interstitial cells in corresponding renal regions, confirming it to be a secretory protein. Gene transcripts, protein products, and the functional activity for CCKAR were consistently localized to the late proximal tubule segments (S2 and S3) in the medullary rays, and the outer stripe of the outer medulla. Lorglumide significantly diminished natriuretic responses of mice to a dietary sodium load without altering the glomerular filtration rate. These findings suggest that the medullary interstitial cells respond to body fluid expansion by CCK release for feedback regulation of the late proximal tubular reabsorption.
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- Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Neuronal Fibers and Neurotransmitter Receptor Expression in the Human Endolymphatic Sac. Otol Neurotol 2017; 38:765-773. [DOI: 10.1097/mao.0000000000001368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Liu T, Konkalmatt PR, Yang Y, Jose PA. Gastrin decreases Na+,K+-ATPase activity via a PI 3-kinase- and PKC-dependent pathway in human renal proximal tubule cells. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2016; 310:E565-71. [PMID: 26786777 PMCID: PMC4824137 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00360.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 01/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The natriuretic effect of gastrin suggests a role in the coordinated regulation of sodium balance by the gastrointestinal tract and the kidney. The renal molecular targets and signal transduction pathways for such an effect of gastrin are largely unknown. Recently, we reported that gastrin induces NHE3 phosphorylation and internalization via phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase and PKCα. In this study, we show that gastrin induced the phosphorylation of human Na(+),K(+)-ATPase at serine 16, resulting in its endocytosis via Rab5 and Rab7 endosomes. The gastrin-stimulated phosphorylation of Na(+),K(+)-ATPase was dependent on PI 3-kinase because the phosphorylation was blocked by the PI 3-kinase inhibitor wortmannin. The phosphorylation of Na(+),K(+)-ATPase was also blocked by chelerythrine, a pan-PKC inhibitor, Gö-6976, a conventional PKC (cPKC) inhibitor, and BAPTA-AM, an intracellular calcium chelator, suggesting the importance of cPKC and intracellular calcium in the gastrin signaling pathway. The gastrin-mediated phosphorylation of Na(+),K(+)-ATPase was also inhibited by U-73122, a phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor. These results suggest that gastrin regulates sodium hydrogen exchanger and pump in renal proximal tubule cells at the apical and basolateral membranes.
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- Tianbing Liu
- Center for Molecular Physiology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
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- Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; and
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- Center for Molecular Physiology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC; Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Chen Y, Asico LD, Zheng S, Villar VAM, He D, Zhou L, Zeng C, Jose PA. Gastrin and D1 dopamine receptor interact to induce natriuresis and diuresis. Hypertension 2013; 62:927-33. [PMID: 24019399 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.01094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Oral NaCl produces a greater natriuresis and diuresis than the intravenous infusion of the same amount of NaCl. Gastrin is the major gastrointestinal hormone taken up by renal proximal tubule (RPT) cells. We hypothesized that renal gastrin and dopamine receptors interact to synergistically increase sodium excretion, an impaired interaction of which may be involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension. In Wistar-Kyoto rats, infusion of gastrin induced natriuresis and diuresis, which was abrogated in the presence of a gastrin (cholecystokinin B receptor [CCKBR]; CI-988) or a D1-like receptor antagonist (SCH23390). Similarly, the natriuretic and diuretic effects of fenoldopam, a D1-like receptor agonist, were blocked by SCH23390, as well as by CI-988. However, the natriuretic effects of gastrin and fenoldopam were not observed in spontaneously hypertensive rats. The gastrin/D1-like receptor interaction was also confirmed in RPT cells. In RPT cells from Wistar-Kyoto but not spontaneously hypertensive rats, stimulation of either D1-like receptor or gastrin receptor inhibited Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity, an effect that was blocked in the presence of SCH23390 or CI-988. In RPT cells from Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats, CCKBR and D1 receptor coimmunoprecipitated, which was increased after stimulation of either D1 receptor or CCKBR in RPT cells from Wistar-Kyoto rats; stimulation of one receptor increased the RPT cell membrane expression of the other receptor, effects that were not observed in spontaneously hypertensive rats. These data suggest that there is a synergism between CCKBR and D1-like receptors to increase sodium excretion. An aberrant interaction between the renal CCK BR and D1-like receptors (eg, D1 receptor) may play a role in the pathogenesis of hypertension.
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- Yue Chen
- Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China.
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Liu T, Jose PA. Gastrin induces sodium-hydrogen exchanger 3 phosphorylation and mTOR activation via a phosphoinositide 3-kinase-/protein kinase C-dependent but AKT-independent pathway in renal proximal tubule cells derived from a normotensive male human. Endocrinology 2013; 154:865-75. [PMID: 23275470 PMCID: PMC3548178 DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Gastrin is natriuretic, but its renal molecular targets and signal transduction pathways are not fully known. In this study, we confirmed the existence of CCKBR (a gastrin receptor) in male human renal proximal tubule cells and discovered that gastrin induced S6 phosphorylation, a downstream component of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3 kinase)-mammalian target of rapamycin pathway. Gastrin also increased the phosphorylation of sodium-hydrogen exchanger 3 (NHE3) at serine 552, caused its internalization, and decreased its expression at the cell surface and NHE activity. The phosphorylation of NHE3 and S6 was dependent on PI3 kinases because it was blocked by 2 different PI3-kinase inhibitors, wortmannin and LY294,002. The phosphorylation of NHE3 and S6 was not affected by the protein kinase A inhibitor H-89 but was blocked by a pan-PKC (chelerythrine) and a conventional PKC (cPKC) inhibitor (Gö6976) (10 μM) and an intracellular calcium chelator, 1,2-bis-(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, tetra(acetoxymethyl)-ester, suggesting the importance of cPKC and intracellular calcium in the gastrin signaling pathway. The cPKC involved was probably PKCα because it was phosphorylated by gastrin. The gastrin-mediated phosphorylation of NHE3, S6, and PKCα was via phospholipase C because it was blocked by a phospholipase C inhibitor, U73122 (10 μM). The phosphorylation (activation) of AKT, which is usually upstream of mammalian target of rapamycin in the classic PI3 kinase-AKT-p70S6K signaling pathway, was not affected, suggesting that the gastrin-induced phosphorylation of NHE3 and S6 is dependent on both PI3 kinase and PKCα but not AKT.
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- Tianbing Liu
- Center for Molecular Physiology Research, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
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Desai AJ, Miller LJ. Sensitivity of cholecystokinin receptors to membrane cholesterol content. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2012; 3:123. [PMID: 23087674 PMCID: PMC3475150 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2012.00123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2012] [Accepted: 10/01/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Cholesterol represents a structurally and functionally important component of the eukaryotic cell membrane, where it increases lipid order, affects permeability, and influences the lateral mobility and conformation of membrane proteins. Several G protein-coupled receptors have been shown to be affected by the cholesterol content of the membrane, with functional impact on their ligand binding and signal transduction characteristics. The effects of cholesterol can be mediated directly by specific molecular interactions with the receptor and/or indirectly by altering the physical properties of the membrane. This review focuses on the importance and differential effects of membrane cholesterol on the activity of cholecystokinin (CCK) receptors. The type 1 CCK receptor is quite sensitive to its cholesterol environment, while the type 2 CCK receptor is not. The possible structural basis for this differential impact is explored and the implications of pathological states, such as metabolic syndrome, in which membrane cholesterol may be increased and CCK1R function may be abnormal are discussed. This is believed to have substantial potential importance for the development of drugs targeting the CCK receptor.
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- *Correspondence: Laurence J. Miller, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, 13400 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA. e-mail:
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von Schrenck T, Ahrens M, de Weerth A, Bobrowski C, Wolf G, Jonas L, Jocks T, Schulz M, Bläker M, Neumaier M, Stahl RA. CCKB/gastrin receptors mediate changes in sodium and potassium absorption in the isolated perfused rat kidney. Kidney Int 2000; 58:995-1003. [PMID: 10972664 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00257.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: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND To evaluate the function of cholecystokinin B (CCKB)/gastrin receptors in the rat kidney, we identified the receptors by Northern blot and localized the receptors by immunohistochemistry. The functional effects of gastrin were studied under standardized in vitro conditions using the isolated perfused kidney. METHODS Rat kidneys were mounted in an organ bath by attaching the renal artery to a perfusion system. A catheter was inserted into the renal vein and the ureter to collect samples that were analyzed for the concentrations of electrolytes. After a preperfusion period, gastrin-17-I was given via the renal artery (10-8 to 10-6 mol/L). Subsequently, hemodynamic parameters (for example, perfusate flow) and changes in sodium and potassium absorption were determined. All data were subjected to a nonparametric analysis of variance and, in case of significant results, to subsequent paired comparisons by the a posteriori Wilcoxon test. RESULTS Northern blot analysis detected CCKB receptor transcripts in total RNA isolated from kidneys. Immunohistochemistry localized CCKB receptors on tubules and collecting duct cells. Compared with controls, gastrin (10-6 mol/L) caused a decrease in the fractional sodium reabsorption (basal 80%, 10 minutes after application of gastrin 71%, after 20 minutes 62%, P < 0.05). This effect was inhibited by the CCKB receptor antagonist L-365,260. Gastrin decreased urinary potassium excretion at 10-8 and 10-6 mol/L [maximal decrease at 10-6 mol/L from baseline values (100%) to 49% after 10 minutes and to 69% after 20 minutes, P < 0.05, N = 6]. This effect was also abolished by the CCKB receptor antagonist L-365,260. Gastrin (10-6 mol/L) reduced perfusate flow by 31% (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS CCKB receptors are expressed in the rat kidney on tubules and collecting ducts. These receptors mediate changes in renal potassium and sodium absorption. In addition, gastrin causes a decrease in perfusate flow, indicating that CCKB receptors might also modulate vascular resistance in the kidney.
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- T von Schrenck
- Department of Medicine, Divisions of Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, and Institute of Pathology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
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Haycox A, Lombard M, Neoptolemos J, Walley T. Review article: current treatment and optimal patient management in pancreatic cancer. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 1998; 12:949-64. [PMID: 9798799 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.1998.00390.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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This review analyses the current state of knowledge and understanding concerning the optimum treatment and therapeutic management of patients who suffer from pancreatic cancer. It outlines recent advances in scientific understanding and assesses their potential future value to clinicians in confronting this disease. Despite a significant expansion in scientific knowledge relating to factors underlying the early development of pancreatic carcinoma, the clinician continues to be restricted to a severely limited therapeutic armoury for this disease. Local therapies (surgery and radiation) are inevitably of limited value in the face of a disease that is normally encountered at a stage where metastasis is already highly developed. Despite such limitations, however, surgery performed in specialist units may be of value for 10-20% of patients, with a 5-year survival rate in such units of between 10 and 24%. This may be improved even further by appropriate use of adjuvant treatment. The advanced stage of the disease when normally encountered emphasizes the potential value of systemic treatment in this therapeutic area. Unfortunately systemic treatment (chemotherapy) has been found to be ineffective to date in significantly extending survival, with a low rate and duration of remission being identified in most trials. The challenge for both the health service and the pharmaceutical industry is to harness recent and future developments in scientific knowledge to the practical benefit of clinicians. Where cure is possible it should be vigorously pursued; where it is not, in this field above all others, clinicians have a duty of care. To achieve this it is necessary to abandon the therapeutic nihilism that has characterized the attitudes of clinicians towards this disease in the past. It is time that such nihilism was replaced by a recognition of the challenges and the opportunities available to clinicians in enhancing the quantity and quality of life available to patients. The dictum of 'curing whenever possible but caring always' should be the future therapeutic philosophy used to guide clinicians in this important and rapidly changing therapeutic area.
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- A Haycox
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, UK.
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de Weerth A, Jonas L, Schade R, Schöneberg T, Wolf G, Pace A, Kirchhoff F, Schulz M, Heinig T, Greten H, von Schrenck T. Gastrin/cholecystokinin type B receptors in the kidney: molecular, pharmacological, functional characterization, and localization. Eur J Clin Invest 1998; 28:592-601. [PMID: 9726041 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.1998.00310.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Gastrin/cholecystokinin type B receptors (CCKBRs) can be found on parietal cells and smooth muscle cells and are the predominant brain CCK receptors. Recent cloning studies indicate that this is receptor type might also be expressed in the kidney. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used Northern blot analysis in guinea pig. kidney and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in several murine kidney cells lines to evaluate this organ for the expression of the CCKBRs. The receptor was pharmacologically characterized by displacement experiments using [125I]-BH-CCKs and various agonists and antagonists. Polyclonal antibodies vs. the CCKBRs were raised in chicken, and immunohistochemistry on tissue sections was used to localize the receptor within the organ. The effect of gastrin on renal cell growth was measured using proximal tubulus (MCT) cells, which were cultured with gastrin (10-9 M) for 24-72 h. Cell counts and [3H]-thymidine incorporation experiments were performed. RESULTS CCKBR transcripts can be detected in kidney RNA (tubules > glomeruli > interstitium). RT-PCR revealed CCKBR transcripts in proximal tubules (MCT cells) and in mesangium (MMC). The medullary thick ascending limb of Henle's loop and several control tissues such as liver and muscle were negative. Displacement experiments using [125I]-BH-CCK and various agonists and antagonists identified binding sites with typical CCKBR pharmacology. CCKBRs were localized in the proximal tubulus, distal collecting ducts and mesangium cells. Treatment of rested MCT cells with gastrin 17-1 induced cell proliferation and [3H]-thymidine incorporation by at least 40% compared with normal growth (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION These results show for the first time that CCKBRs are present in selected areas of the kidney, and strongly confirm our previous observation that this organ expresses binding sites for [125I]-gastrin. Furthermore, gastrin might act as a growth factor in the kidney.
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- A de Weerth
- Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
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Duggan KA, Hodge G, Makarious MM, Charlesworth JA. Differential efficacy of perindopril and enalapril in experimental diabetic nephropathy. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1996; 23:608-10. [PMID: 8800600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1996.tb02795.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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1. Treatment with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors ameliorates human and experimental diabetic nephropathy, possibly as a result of changes in angiotensin II (AngII) and/or bradykinin concentrations. However, ACE is an indiscriminate enzyme, which hydrolyses numerous vasoactive peptides at two catalytic sites that are thought to be substrate specific. AngI is cleaved at the C-terminal site, bradykinin at both the C- and N-terminal sites, while other substrates may be preferentially cleaved at the N-terminal site. Of the various ACE inhibitors, some (e.g. perindopril) bind preferentially to the C-terminal site while others (e.g. enalapril) bind to both. We compared the efficacy of perindopril and enalapril in the diabetic SHR to determine whether all the benefits of ACE inhibition derive from changes in the concentrations of C-terminal related substrates. 2. Diabetes was induced by tail vein injection of streptozotocin (60 mg/kg) in 14 week old SHR. Blood glucose was maintained at 4-8 mmol/L by daily ultralente insulin injection and rats were randomized to control, enalapril (10 mg/kg per day) or perindopril (4 mg/kg per day) groups. Blood pressure, creatinine clearance and urinary protein excretion were monitored for 3 months. 3. Blood pressure in both treatment groups was lower than in control (perindopril P < 0.0001; enalapril P < 0.0001). Levels were marginally higher in the perindopril group than the enalapril group, although this difference was significant only in the second month (P < 0.025). Creatinine clearance was significantly lower in the perindopril group (0.44 +/- 0.05 mL/min) than in either the control rats (0.85 +/- 0.11 mL/min; P < 0.001) or the enalapril-treated group (0.66 +/- 0.05 mL/min; P < 0.005). Proteinuria was also lower in this group (4.3 +/- 0.9 mg/24h) than in the enalapril-treated (11.3 +/- 5.8 mg/24h; P < 0.05) or control groups (32.1 +/- 4.5 mg/24h; P < 0.0005). 4. The difference in efficacy between perindopril and enalapril that we have observed suggests that the benefits of ACE inhibition derive from changes in the concentrations of peptides catalysed by the C-terminal rather than the N-terminal site.
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- K A Duggan
- Hypertension Service, Liverpool Hospital, New South Wales, Australia
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Mu JY, Hansson GC, Bergström G, Lundgren O. Renal sodium excretion after oral or intravenous sodium loading in sodium-deprived normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats. ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 1995; 153:169-77. [PMID: 7778457 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.1995.tb09848.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats that had been on a low sodium diet for 3 days were given 1.5 mmol sodium chloride kg-1 body weight either orally or intravenously. The rats receiving an oral sodium load showed a greater natriuresis than those receiving the same saline load intravenously. No increase of renal sodium excretion was observed when the rats received a hypertonic mannitol solution orally. The cumulative sodium excretion during the 8 h following oral loading was two to three times larger in SHR than in WKY, whereas no difference between strains could be demonstrated after giving saline intravenously. Furthermore, after switching from normal to low sodium diet the rate of decrease of renal sodium excretion was greater in SHR than in WKY rats. It is proposed that there exists a gastrointestinal sensory mechanism for sodium controlling the renal sodium excretion. Furthermore, it is suggested that the function of this mechanism differs between SHR and WKY.
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- J Y Mu
- Department of Physiology, University of Göteborg, Sweden
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Intestinal tissue from cats was homogenized and fractionated by ultrafiltration to a molecular range of about 500-10,000 and separated by gel chromatography. The fractions from the gel filtrations were tested with regard to their ability to inhibit Na,K-ATPase as assayed with p-nitrophenylphosphate. The fractions that inhibited Na,K-ATPase were pooled and named pooled fraction 2. Pooled fraction 1 contained molecules larger, and pooled fraction 3 and 4 the molecules smaller, than pooled fraction 2. The four fractions were assayed for natriuretic 'activity' on anaesthetized rats. Administering pooled fraction 3 (no Na,K-ATPase-inhibiting activity) i.v. augmented renal excretion of sodium and water, whereas the other pooled fractions did not exhibit any consistent natriuretic effect. Cardiac ventricular tissue from cats was fractionated in the same manner as was done for the intestine. None of the cardiac fractions contained any natriuretic material. It is proposed that the cat small intestine contains a natriuretic factor.
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- O Lundgren
- Department of Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- R J Unwin
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, England
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