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Palubiski LM, O'Halloran KD, O'Neill J. Renal Physiological Adaptation to High Altitude: A Systematic Review. Front Physiol 2020; 11:756. [PMID: 32765289 PMCID: PMC7378794 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Background: Under normal physiological conditions, renal tissue oxygen is tightly regulated. At high altitude, a physiological challenge is imposed by the decrease in atmospheric oxygen. At the level of the kidney, the physiological adaptation to high altitude is poorly understood, which might relate to different integrated responses to hypoxia over different time domains of exposure. Thus, this systematic review sought to examine the renal physiological adaptation to high altitude in the context of the magnitude and duration of exposure to high altitude in the healthy kidney model. Methods: To conduct the review, three electronic databases were examined: OVID, PubMed, and Scopus. Search terms included: Altitude, renal, and kidney. The broad, but comprehensive search, retrieved 1,057 articles published between 1997 and April 2020. Fourteen studies were included in the review. Results: The inconsistent effect of high altitude on renal hemodynamic parameters (glomerular filtration rate, renal blood flow, and renal plasma flow), electrolyte balance, and renal tissue oxygen is difficult to interpret; however, the data suggest that the nature and extent of renal physiological adaptation at high altitude appears to be related to the magnitude and duration of the exposure. Conclusion: It is clear that renal physiological adaptation to high altitude is a complex process that is not yet fully understood. Further research is needed to better understand the renal physiological adaptation to hypoxia and how renal oxygen homeostasis and metabolism is defended during exposure to high altitude and affected as a long-term consequence of renal adaptation at high altitude.
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- Lisa M Palubiski
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine & Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine & Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine & Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Evans RG, Ince C, Joles JA, Smith DW, May CN, O'Connor PM, Gardiner BS. Haemodynamic influences on kidney oxygenation: Clinical implications of integrative physiology. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2013; 40:106-22. [DOI: 10.1111/1440-1681.12031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2012] [Revised: 10/21/2012] [Accepted: 11/15/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Roger G Evans
- Department of Physiology; Monash University; Melbourne; Victoria; Australia
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- Department of Translational Physiology; Academic Medical Center; University of Amsterdam; Amsterdam; The Netherlands
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension; University Medical Center; Utrecht; The Netherlands
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering; The University of Western Australia; Perth; Western Australia; Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of Melbourne; Melbourne; Victoria; Australia
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- Department of Physiology; Georgia Health Sciences University; Augusta; GA; USA
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering; The University of Western Australia; Perth; Western Australia; Australia
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Denton KM, Shweta A, Flower RL, Anderson WP. Predominant postglomerular vascular resistance response to reflex renal sympathetic nerve activation during ANG II clamp in rabbits. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2004; 287:R780-6. [PMID: 15191904 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00202.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have shown previously that a moderate reflex increase in renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) elevated glomerular capillary pressure, whereas a more severe increase in RSNA decreased glomerular capillary pressure. This suggested that the nerves innervating the glomerular afferent and efferent arterioles could be selectively activated, allowing differential control of glomerular capillary pressure. A caveat to this conclusion was that intrarenal actions of neurally stimulated ANG II might have contributed to the increase in postglomerular resistance. This has now been investigated. Anesthetized rabbits were prepared for renal micropuncture and RSNA recording. One group (ANG II clamp) received an infusion of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (enalaprilat, 2 mg/kg bolus plus 2 mg·kg−1·h−1) plus ANG II (∼20 ng·kg−1·min−1), the other vehicle. Measurements were made before (room air) and during 14% O2. Renal blood flow decreased less during ANG II clamp compared with vehicle [9 ± 1% vs. 20 ± 4%, interaction term (PGT) < 0.05], despite a similar increase in RSNA in response to 14% O2in the two groups. Arterial pressure and glomerular filtration rate were unaffected by 14% O2in both groups. Glomerular capillary pressure increased from 33 ± 1 to 37 ± 1 mmHg during ANG II clamp and from 33 ± 2 to 35 ± 1 mmHg in the vehicle group before and during 14% O2, respectively (PGT< 0.05). During ANG II clamp, postglomerular vascular resistance was still increased in response to RSNA during 14% O2, demonstrating that the action of the renal nerves on the postglomerular vasculature was independent of the renin-angiotensin system. This further supports our hypothesis that increases in RSNA can selectively control pre- and postglomerular vascular resistance and therefore glomerular ultrafiltration.
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- Kate M Denton
- Dept. of Physiology, Monash Univ., Victoria 3800, Australia.
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Bauer K, Elger W, Schneider B, Krahl E, Bauer R. Effect of estradiol sulfamate (ES-J995) on affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen, cardiovascular function and acid-base balance in ovariectomized rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 55:301-7. [PMID: 14703777 DOI: 10.1078/0940-2993-00330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Oral administration of estradiol sulfamate (ES, prodrug of estradiol) leads to increased systemic and reduced hepatic effects than estradiol because ES is accumulated in erythrocytes. However, possible alterations of erythrocytic oxygen transport by intraerythrocytic ES accumulation has not been studied. Therefore, ovariectomized adult female rats (n = 58; body wt.) were randomly treated orally either with single doses (day 1) or multiple dose (days 1-4) with vehicle, with estradiol sulfamate (ES-J995, 1 mg x kg(-1) b.w.) or with estradiol (30 mg x kg(-1) b.w.). Under general anesthesia arterial blood pressure, heart rate, blood gases, and acid-base balance were measured. Hypoxia was performed by lowering the inspired fraction of oxygen from 0.35 to 0.12. In addition, individual oxygen dissociation curves and ES-J995 distribution in blood and plasma were estimated. ES-J995 was accumulated in erythrocytes by approximately 98% (P < 0.01), but oxygen transport capacity was not altered (P50: 35.6 +/- 1.0 mm Hg to 37.1 +/- 1.1 mm Hg). Blood gases and acid-base balance parameters were not altered after ES-J995 treatment under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. In conclusion, ES-J995 accumulation in erythrocytes does not alter the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen nor any function which would indicate an impaired oxygen delivery to the body.
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- Kathrin Bauer
- Institute for Pathophysiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
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Höhne C, Boemke W, Schleyer N, Francis RC, Krebs MO, Kaczmarczyk G. Low sodium intake does not impair renal compensation of hypoxia-induced respiratory alkalosis. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2002; 92:2097-104. [PMID: 11960962 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00719.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Acute hypoxia causes hyperventilation and respiratory alkalosis, often combined with increased diuresis and sodium, potassium, and bicarbonate excretion. With a low sodium intake, the excretion of the anion bicarbonate may be limited by the lower excretion rate of the cation sodium through activated sodium-retaining mechanisms. This study investigates whether the short-term renal compensation of hypoxia-induced respiratory alkalosis is impaired by a low sodium intake. Nine conscious, tracheotomized dogs were studied twice either on a low-sodium (LS = 0.5 mmol sodium x kg body wt-1 x day-1) or high-sodium (HS = 7.5 mmol sodium x kg body wt-1 x day-1) diet. The dogs breathed spontaneously via a ventilator circuit during the experiments: first hour, normoxia (inspiratory oxygen fraction = 0.21); second to fourth hour, hypoxia (inspiratory oxygen fraction = 0.1). During hypoxia (arterial PO2 34.4 +/- 2.1 Torr), plasma pH increased from 7.37 +/- 0.01 to 7.48 +/- 0.01 (P < 0.05) because of hyperventilation (arterial PCO2 25.6 +/- 2.4 Torr). Urinary pH and urinary bicarbonate excretion increased irrespective of the sodium intake. Sodium excretion increased more during HS than during LS, whereas the increase in potassium excretion was comparable in both groups. Thus the quick onset of bicarbonate excretion within the first hour of hypoxia-induced respiratory alkalosis was not impaired by a low sodium intake. The increased sodium excretion during hypoxia seems to be combined with a decrease in plasma aldosterone and angiotensin II in LS as well as in HS dogs. Other factors, e.g., increased mean arterial blood pressure, minute ventilation, and renal blood flow, may have contributed.
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- Claudia Höhne
- Experimental Anesthesia, Clinic of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité, D-13353 Berlin, Germany.
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Denton KM, Shweta A, Anderson WP. Preglomerular and postglomerular resistance responses to different levels of sympathetic activation by hypoxia. J Am Soc Nephrol 2002; 13:27-34. [PMID: 11752018 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v13127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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This study investigated the effects of graded reflex increases in renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) on renal preglomerular and postglomerular vascular resistances. With the use of hypoxia to reflexly elicit increases in RSNA without affecting mean arterial pressure, renal function and stop-flow pressures were measured in three groups of rabbits before and after exposure to room air and moderate (14% O2) or severe (10% O2) hypoxia. Moderate and severe hypoxia increased RSNA, primarily by increasing the amplitude of the sympathetic bursts rather than their frequency. RSNA amplitude increased by 20 +/- 6% (P < 0.05) and 60 +/- 16% (P < 0.05), respectively. Moderate hypoxia decreased estimated renal blood flow (ERBF; 26 +/- 7%; P = 0.07), whereas estimated glomerular capillary pressure (32 +/- 1 versus 34 +/- 1 mmHg; P < 0.05) and filtration fraction (FF; P < 0.01) increased. In response to moderate hypoxia, calculated preglomerular (approximately 20%) and postglomerular (approximately 70%) resistance both increased, but only the increase in postglomerular resistance was significant (P < 0.05). In contrast, severe hypoxia decreased ERBF (56 +/- 8%; P < 0.01), GFR (55 +/- 9%; P < 0.001), and glomerular capillary pressure (32 +/- 1 versus 29 +/- 1 mmHg; P < 0.001), with no change in FF, reflecting similar preglomerular (approximately 240%; P < 0.05) and postglomerular ( approximately 250%; P < 0.05) contributions to the vasoconstriction and a decrease in calculated K(f) (P < 0.05). These results provide evidence that reflexly induced increases in RSNA amplitude may differentially control preglomerular and postglomerular vascular resistances.
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- Kate M Denton
- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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McGuire M, Bradford A. Chronic intermittent hypercapnic hypoxia increases pulmonary arterial pressure and haematocrit in rats. Eur Respir J 2001; 18:279-85. [PMID: 11529285 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.01.00078801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with pulmonary hypertension and raised haematocrit. The multiple episodes of apnoea in this condition cause chronic intermittent hypoxia and hypercapnia but the effects of such blood gas changes on pulmonary pressure or haematocrit are unknown. The present investigation tests the hypothesis that chronic intermittent hypercapnic hypoxia causes increased pulmonary arterial pressure and erythropoiesis. Rats were treated with alternating periods of normoxia and hypercapnic hypoxia every 30 s for 8 h per day for 5 days per week for 5 weeks, as a model of the intermittent blood gas changes which occur in sleep-disordered breathing in humans. Haematocrit, red blood cell count and haemoglobin concentration were measured each week and systemic and pulmonary arterial blood pressure and heart weight were measured after 5 weeks. In relation to control, chronic intermittent hypercapnic hypoxia caused a significant increase in systemic (104.3+/-4.7 mmHg versus 121.0+/-10.4 mmHg) and pulmonary arterial pressure (20.7+/-6.8 mmHg versus 31.3+/-7.2 mmHg), right ventricular weight (expressed as ratios) and haematocrit (45.2+/-1.0% versus 51.5+/-1.5%). It is concluded that the pulmonary hypertension and elevated haematocrit associated with sleep-disordered breathing is caused by chronic intermittent hypercapnic hypoxia.
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- M McGuire
- Dept of Physiology, Royal College of Surgeons, St. Stephen's Green Dublin, Ireland
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Hammad FT, Wheatley AM, Davis G. Long-term renal effects of unilateral ureteral obstruction and the role of endothelin. Kidney Int 2000; 58:242-50. [PMID: 10886569 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00159.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 Angiotensin II (Ang II) and endothelin (ET) are involved in the alteration of renal function in unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO). The renal response to Ang II following the reversal of a 24-hour UUO and the effect of ET blockade by bosentan during the time of obstruction were investigated. METHODS Following blockade of the endogenous production of Ang II by captopril, the renal response to Ang II was studied in rats 15 to 18 days after a 24-hour UUO (N = 10) or a sham operation (N = 9) both with (N = 10) and without (N = 8) bosentan treatment in the periobstruction period. Similar studies were performed in another group (N = 9) two months following the reversal of obstruction. RESULTS In the sham-operated group, Ang II reduced renal blood flow (RBF) by 42 +/- 9% (P < 0.01), glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by 30 +/- 8% (P < 0.01), urine volume (UV) by 44 +/- 9% (P < 0.001), and absolute (UNaV) and fractional sodium excretion (FENa) by 52 +/- 9% (P < 0.001) and 33 +/- 9% (P = 0.054), respectively. In the previously obstructed kidney, Ang II did not change RBF but increased GFR by 106 +/- 40% (P < 0.01), UV by 75 +/- 21% (P < 0.001), UNaV by 190 +/- 60% (P < 0.001), and FENa by 40 +/- 13% (P < 0.05). Bosentan treatment in the obstructed group prevented these Ang II-induced effects and did not have any effect on the sham-operated kidney. Two months following reversal of the obstruction, the response of the kidney was similar to that of the control kidney. CONCLUSION Twenty-four-hour UUO results in a temporary abnormality in the renal response to Ang II, which is due, in part, to the actions of ET at the time of obstruction.
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- F T Hammad
- Department of Physiology, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Flemming B, Seeliger E, Wronski T, Steer K, Arenz N, Persson PB. Oxygen and renal hemodynamics in the conscious rat. J Am Soc Nephrol 2000; 11:18-24. [PMID: 10616836 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v11118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Previous studies have suggested a link between renal metabolism and local kidney hemodynamics to prevent potential hypoxic injury of particularly vulnerable nephron segments, such as the outer medullary region. The present study used three different inspiratory oxygen concentrations to modify renal metabolic state in the conscious rat (hypoxia 10% O2, normoxia 20% 02, and hyperoxia 100% 02). Renal blood flow (RBF) was assessed by ultrasound transit time; renal perfusion pressure (RPP) was controlled by a hydroelectric servo-control device. Local RBF was estimated by laser-Doppler flux for the cortical and outer medullary region (2 and 4 mm below renal surface, respectively). Hypoxia led to a generalized significant increase in RBF, whereas hyperoxia-induced changes did not (hypoxia 6.6 +/- 0.6 ml/min versus normoxia 5.7 +/- 0.7 ml/min, P < 0.05). Moreover, regional and total RBF autoregulation was markedly attenuated by hypoxia. Conversely, hyperoxia enhanced RBF autoregulation. Under normoxic and hyperoxic conditions, medullary RBF was very well maintained, even at low RPP (medullary RBF: approximately 70% of control at 50 mmHg). The hypoxic challenge, however, significantly diminished the capacity to maintain medullary blood flow at low RPP (medullary RBF: approximately 30% of control at 50 mmHg, P < 0.05). These data suggest that renal metabolism and renal hemodynamics are closely intertwined. In response to acute hypoperfusion, the kidney succeeds in maintaining remarkably high medullary blood flow. This is not accomplished, however, when a concomitant hypoxic challenge is superimposed on RPP reduction.
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- Bert Flemming
- Johannes-Müller-Institut für Physiologie, Humboldt Universität (Charité), Berlin, Germany
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- Johannes-Müller-Institut für Physiologie, Humboldt Universität (Charité), Berlin, Germany
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- Johannes-Müller-Institut für Physiologie, Humboldt Universität (Charité), Berlin, Germany
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- Johannes-Müller-Institut für Physiologie, Humboldt Universität (Charité), Berlin, Germany
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- Johannes-Müller-Institut für Physiologie, Humboldt Universität (Charité), Berlin, Germany
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- Johannes-Müller-Institut für Physiologie, Humboldt Universität (Charité), Berlin, Germany
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1. Studies were performed on rats that had been made chronically hypoxic (CH rats) in a normoxic chamber at 12% O2 for 3-5 weeks. Under Saffan anaesthesia, respiratory and cardiovascular variables, renal haemodynamics and renal function were recorded while the rats spontaneously breathed 12% O2 followed by a switch to air breathing for 20 min. Plasma renin activity was assessed by radioimmunoassay of angiotensin I. Plasma atrial natiruetic peptide (ANP) was indirectly assessed by measurement of cyclic GMP in urine. 2. When breathing 12% O2, CH rats showed hyperventilation and raised haematocrit (52%) relative to normoxic (N) rats. But arterial pressure (ABP), renal blood flow (RBF), renal vascular conductance (RVC), mean right atrial pressure (mRAtP), urine flow, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and absolute sodium excretion (UNaV) were comparable to those recorded in N rats breathing air. Urinary cGMP was 40% greater than in N rats, but plasma renin activity was not significantly greater in CH than in N rats. 3. Air breathing in CH rats induced hypoventilation, a 12% increase in ABP, no change in mRAtP, RBF or GFR, but increases of 75 and 100% in urine flow and UNaV, respectively. Neither urinary cGMP nor plasma renin activity changed. Such increases in urine flow and UNaV were absent when renal perfusion pressure (RPP) was prevented from rising during air breathing by using an occluder on the dorsal aorta. 4. We propose that by 3-5 weeks of chronic hypoxia renal function was normalized, principally because arterial O2 content was normalized by the increase in haematocrit and because ABP and renal haemodynamics were normalized: acute hypoxia in N rats produces a fall in ABP. We suggest that plasma ANP was raised by the actions of hypoxia or erythropoietin on the atrium, rather than by atrial distension, but suggest that ANP had little direct influence on renal function and tended to limit the influence of the renin-angiotensin system. We further propose that the diuresis and natriuresis seen during air breathing were mediated by the increase in RPP; neither plasma ANP nor renin activity change in the immediate short term.
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- M Neylon
- Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Birmingham, UK
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Neylon M, Marshall J, Johns EJ. The role of the renin-angiotensin system in the renal response to moderate hypoxia in the rat. J Physiol 1996; 491 ( Pt 2):479-88. [PMID: 8866871 PMCID: PMC1158742 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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1. In two groups of Saffan-anaesthetized rats, we studied the role of the renin-angiotensin system in mediating the antidiuresis and antinatriuresis induced by moderate systemic hypoxia. 2. In both groups, a first period of hypoxia (breathing 12% O2 for 20 min) induced a fall in arterial partial pressure of O2 (Pa,O2; to 42 mmHg), a fall in mean arterial pressure (MABP), no change in renal blood flow (RBF) due to an increase in renal vascular conductance (RVC = RBF/MABP) and falls in urine flow and absolute sodium excretion (UNaV). Concomitantly, plasma renin activity increased from 3.08 +/- 0.68 (mean +/- S.E.M.) to 8.36 +/- 1.8 ng ml-1 hr-1. 3. In group 1 (n = 11), Losartan (10 mg kg-1, I.V.), the angiotensin (AII) AT1 receptor antagonist, induced a fall in MABP (115 +/- 3 to 90 +/- 3 mmHg), an increase in RVC such that RBF was unchanged, and falls in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), urine flow and UNaV. However, hypoxia induced qualitatively similar changes to those seen before Losartan treatment. 4. In group 2 (n = 9), we occluded the aorta distal to the renal artery to prevent basal MABP and renal perfusion pressure (RPP) from falling after addition of Losartan and to keep the hypoxia-induced fall in MABP the same as before Losartan treatment. Nevertheless, Losartan induced an increase in basal RVC, RBF, urine flow and UNaV whilst hypoxia induced falls in urine flow and UNaV that were proportionately similar to those seen prior to addition of Losartan. 5. These results indicate that in the Saffan-anaesthetized rat, AII exerts tonic, renal vasoconstrictor and consequent antidiuretic and antinatriuretic influences in normoxia, but does not contribute to the hypoxia-induced antidiuresis and antinatriuresis. We propose that renin secretion is increased by the hypoxia-induced fall in RPP rather than by an increase in renal sympathetic activity. Thus, the AII generated cannot produce antidiuresis and antinatriuresis by its known facilitatory influence on the actions of an increase in sympathetic activity on the renal tubules and is insufficient to produce these effects by direct actions. Rather, these results support the view that the antidiuresis and antinatriuresis of moderate hypoxia is predominantly due to the fall in RPP.
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- M Neylon
- Department of Physiology, Medical School, Birmingham, UK
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