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Mechanism of dopamine-induced diuresis in the dog.

This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of dopamine (D) on renal water excretion. Intravenous (i.v.) infusion of D (7.5 microgram/kg per min) was associated with a significant, reversible increase in free water excretion (CH2O) and a decrease in urinary osmolality (Uosmol). These changes, however, were associated with significant increases in renal blood flow (RBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and urinary sodium excretion (UNaV). These increases could have been responsible for the diuretic response to D. To examine whether D has a direct effect on vasopressin (ADH) release, D was infused into one common carotid artery at a dose equal to one-fourth the i.v. dose. No effects on CH2O and Uosmol were observed. To examine whether D might have an antagonistic effect on ADH a single bolus of ADH (100 mU) was given to the same hypophysectomized dogs with and without D infusion. The antidiuretic response to ADH was the same, whether or not D was given concomitantly. The net changes in Uosmol and CH2O in response to ADH were not significantly different. Taken together, the present results provide no evidence for a direct effect of D on ADH release nor do they indicate an interference with the peripheral action of ADH. The dopamine-induced diuresis is probably the result of increased solute excretion. This, in turn, is the result of the combined effects of dopamine on increasing renal blood flow, GFR, and sodium excretion.

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Role of deep nephrons and the terminal collecting duct in a mannitol-induced diuresis.

Recollection micropuncture in Munich-Wistar rats was used to study the effects of intravenous hypertonic mannitol infusions on fluid reabsorption by surface nephrons, prior to the bend of Henle's loop of deep nephrons, and along the papillary collecting duct. During mannitol diuresis, single nephron glomerular filtration rate rose significantly in surface nephrons but fell in deep nephrons. Although mannitol increased the delivery of sodium and water to the end of the proximal tubule and to the first portion of the distal tubule of surface nephrons, water and sodium were reabsorbed between these two sites. In deep nephrons, water reabsorption prior to the bend of the loop of Henle was significantly decreased. Absolute sodium delivery to this site was reduced despite a marked decrease in fractional sodium reabsorption prior to the bend. Papillary osmolality was decreased. Renal plasma flow and inner medullary plasma flow (IMPF) increased proportionally. The reduced water extraction prior to the bend of deep nephrons and the decrease in papillary osmolality could have been partly due to a concomitant increase in IMPF and a decrease in sodium delivery to the medulla. The reabsorption of delivered sodium and water by the papillary collecting duct was reduced to a greater extent than could be expected from the increase in sodium delivery.

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Indomethacin impairs water diuresis in the DI rat: role of prostaglandins independent of ADH.

The mechanisms by which endogenous renal prostaglandins regulate water excretion were investigated in these studies. Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis slowed water diuresis in water-loaded unanesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats and in Brattleboro rats with hereditary diabetes insipidus owing to absence of endogenous vasopressin. In both strains, treatment with indomethacin or meclofenamate increased the osmolality of the renal papilla by raising sodium and urea content, and also increased the osmolality of the urine. Endogenous creatinine clearance and solute excretion were unchanged. The data are consistent with an effect of prostaglandins on solute transport by renal tubules and demonstrate that endogenous prostaglandins influence water excretion by a mechanism independent of the presence of antidiuretic hormone.

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Osmotic diuresis in a mathematical model of the rat proximal tubule.

Solute reabsorption in the presence of an osmotic load has been examined in a model of the rat proximal convoluted tubule. The model is a computer simulation of a 0.5-cm segment of tubule comprised of compliant cellular and paracellular compartments, which tracks the luminal profiles of Na, K, Cl, HCO3, phosphate, glucose, and urea. In one series of calculations, the peritubular and initial luminal glucose concentrations are varied from 1.0 to 50 mmol/liter. The resulting proximal reabsorption of glucose increases monotonically to 1.5 nmol X s-1 X cm-2. Sodium reabsorption increases with glucose perfusion concentrations between 1.0 and 10 mmol/liter and then declines with greater glucose loads. Above 10 mmol/liter glucose, there is progressive decline in mean luminal Na concentration so that diffusive paracellular backflux, as well as decreased convective reabsorption, are responsible for the natriuresis. Diuresis per se blunts reabsorption of species requiring the development of lumen-to-bath concentration gradients (i.e., K, Cl, and urea). Diminished bicarbonate reabsorption is also predicted with large glucose loads due to intraepithelial alkalinization. This derives both from cellular depolarization and bicarbonate trapping (interspace closure). It is also observed that when interspace closure occurs, a region of intraepithelial K depletion may be formed, promoting diffusive reabsorption of potassium across the tight junction. Thus a 'middle compartment model' for potassium may provide a means of achieving tubule fluid-to-plasma K ratios less than 1.0, in the absence of specific cellular uptake mechanisms.

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Role of proximal convoluted tubule in pressure diuresis in the rat.

The role of different nephron segments in the diuretic response to acute arterial hypertension was studied with tubular microperfusion. Early proximal convolutes were perfused with synthetic glomerular ultrafiltrate; fluid was collected from the last visible loop of the same proximal or from the first loop of the distal tubule. In late proximal collections, an increase of arterial pressure of 24 +/- 2 mmHg reduced reabsorption of tubular fluid 44 +/- 4%. Perfusate chloride concentration fell, but only 2 meq/liter, so that chloride reabsorption was inhibited in proportion to the inhibition of fluid reabsorptions, with a corresponding increase in chloride delivery to the loop of Henle. In early distal collections, there was no significant difference of the early distal flow rate with hypertension, but early distal chloride concentration increased 31 +/- 8% and chloride load increased 45 +/- 12%. Qualitatively similar increases were obtained from paired collections made from free-flowing early distal tubules. Inhibition of proximal fluid reabsorption is a primary response to acute hypertension and may contribute to pressure diuresis. In addition, this inhibition increases the strength of the luminal signal to the macula densa, enhancing the autoregulatory response to hypertension.

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Acute renal denervation produces a diuresis and natriuresis in young SHR but not WKY rats.

Clearance experiments were conducted to determine the effect of acute unilateral renal denervation (DNX) on renal hemodynamics and salt and water excretion in anesthetized 6-wk-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto genetic control rats (WKY). Before DNX, SHR had higher mean arterial pressure (33%) and renal vascular resistance (RVR) (57%) and lower glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (10%); urine flow and sodium excretion were similar. Following DNX in SHR, sodium and water excretion increased by 138 and 62%, respectively (P less than 0.001); GFR and RVR were unchanged. In contrast, DNX in WKY did not affect urine flow (0%) or sodium excretion (-21%). These strain differences were observed in Okamoto-Aoki rats from two sources. Effective DNX was indicated by 95% reduction of norepinephrine content 3 days after DNX in both strains. Six-week-old Sprague-Dawley and Munich-Wistar rats, in contrast to WKY, responded to DNX with a natriuresis (+182%) and diuresis (+95%) (P less than 0.001). Renal function was unaffected by sham DNX in SHR. Our results indicate that efferent renal nerve activity has little tonic influence on the renal vasculature in these young rats. Augmented neurotransmitter release and/or tubular responsiveness may be involved in fluid and electrolyte retention and the pathogenesis of hypertension in SHR. Conversely, blunted renal neuroeffector responses may prevent WKY from developing hypertension.

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Atriopeptin III alters renal medullary hemodynamics and the pressure-diuresis response in rats.

The effects of atriopeptin III on the renal response to changes in renal perfusion pressure (RPP) were examined in uninephrectomized and adrenalectomized rats. Neural influences on the kidney were eliminated by renal denervation. Plasma levels of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), angiotensin II, aldosterone, corticosterone, and norepinephrine were controlled by intravenous infusion. Infusion of atriopeptin III at a dose of 30 or 100 ng X kg-1 X min-1 increased plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide from 101 +/- 8 pg/ml to 424 +/- 16 and 2,553 +/- 308 pg/ml, respectively. In control rats, increasing RPP in two steps from 100 to 125 to 150 mmHg produced sixfold increases in sodium and water excretion. The slopes of the relationships between fractional sodium and water excretion and RPP were enhanced by approximately 10, 20, and 40% in the rats infused with the 30, 100, and 500 ng X kg-1 X min-1 dose of atriopeptin III. Renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate were not significantly different in vehicle- and atriopeptin III-infused rats at any RPP studied. Papillary blood flow measured with a laser-Doppler flowmeter increased 15% within the first 5 min of infusion of atriopeptin III at a dose of 100 ng X kg-1 X min-1. Cortical blood flow was not significantly altered. The rise in papillary blood flow during atriopeptin III infusion, however, may be a consequence and not the cause of the natriuresis and diuresis, since urine flow increased before significant changes in papillary blood flow were detected. These studies suggest that atrial natriuretic factor could influence the long-term control of arterial pressure by altering renal medullary hemodynamics and promoting the elimination of sodium and water. The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide needed to alter the pressure-natriuresis relationship, however, may exceed levels that can be attained in vivo with endogenous release.

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Renal autoregulation and pressure natriuresis during ANF-induced diuresis.

We examined the autoregulation of renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in the anesthetized dog during selective renal arterial infusion of two different synthetic atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) analogues. Rat atriopeptin II (5 X 10(-8) M in renal arterial blood) caused increases in sodium and water excretion but left RBF and GFR unchanged. A similar response was seen with rat 8-33 atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) (10(-9) M), but a twofold higher dose of this peptide produced a transient increase in RBF and a sustained 16% increase in GFR. The normal pattern of RBF autoregulation in response to decreases in renal perfusion pressure was not altered by either peptide. GFR was also efficiently autoregulated during ANF infusion; however, there was a threefold increase in the slope of the relationship between sodium excretion and arterial pressure (pressure natriuresis) during 8-33 ANP infusion (control 1.11 +/- 0.39, 8-33 ANP 4.00 +/- 0.86 mu eq/mmHg, P less than 0.01). We conclude that ANF-induced diuresis can be sustained without detectable changes in either the autoregulation-responsive or autoregulation-independent components of renal vascular resistance. Factors other than GFR, which are highly responsive to renal perfusion pressure, are important in modulating the natriuresis caused by ANF. The augmentation of pressure natriuresis within the GFR autoregulatory range suggests an influence of ANF on the magnitude of arterial pressure-induced changes in tubular sodium reabsorption.

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Role of renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure in the pressure diuresis response.

The present study examines the role of renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (RIHP) in the pressure-diuretic and -natriuretic response. The relationships between RIHP, sodium excretion, and renal perfusion pressure (RPP) were determined in antidiuretic and volume-expanded (VE) rats with an intact or decapsulated kidney. RIHP was measured by use of the implanted capsule technique. RIHP increased significantly from 7.5 +/- 0.8 to 12.0 +/- 1.4 mmHg in VE animals and from 3.3 +/- 0.4 to 5.2 +/- 0.7 mmHg in antidiuretic rats after RPP was varied from 100 to 150 mmHg. The pressure-natriuretic response of the antidiuretic rats was blunted compared with that observed in the VE rats. Decapsulation of the kidney in VE rats lowered RIHP and reduced, but did not eliminate, the pressure-natriuretic response. To determine whether this residual response was related to changes in interstitial pressure in the medulla, cortical (CIHP) and medullary interstitial hydrostatic pressures (MIHP) were simultaneously measured in VE rats with an intact or decapsulated kidney. In control rats CIHP and MIHP were similar at all levels of RPP studied. In rats with the renal capsule removed MIHP was higher than CIHP and rose significantly from 6.7 +/- 0.8 to 9.2 +/- 0.8 mmHg when RPP was varied from 100 to 150 mmHg. These results indicate that pressure diuresis and natriuresis is accompanied by changes in RIHP and the response is modulated by the basal level of RIHP. These findings suggest that changes in MIHP may serve as an intrarenal signal for this response.

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Dehydration reverses vasopressin antagonist-induced diuresis and aquaporin-2 downregulation in rats.

To examine the involvement of vasopressin and dehydration in the regulation of aquaporin-2 (AQP2) expression in rat kidney, we investigated the effects of treatment for 60 h with the specific V2-receptor antagonist OPC-31260 (OPC), alone and in conjunction with dehydration for the last 12 h. Changes in AQP2 protein and mRNA expression in kidney inner medulla were determined by Western and Northern blotting, and AQP2 distribution was analyzed by immunocytochemistry and immunoelectron microscopy. Treatment with OPC increased urine output fourfold, with a reciprocal decrease in urine osmolality. AQP2 expression decreased to 52 +/- 11% of control levels (n = 12, P < 0.05), and AQP2 was found predominantly in intracellular vesicles in collecting duct principal cells. This is consistent with efficient blockade of the vasopressin-induced AQP2 delivery to the plasma membrane and with the observed increased diuresis. Consistent with this, AQP2 mRNA levels were also reduced in response to prolonged OPC treatment (30 +/- 10% of control levels, n = 9). Five days of treatment with furosemide, despite producing even greater polyuria than OPC, was not associated with downregulation of AQP2 levels, demonstrating that AQP2 downregulation is not secondary to increased urine flow rate or loss of medullary hypertonicity. During 12-h thirsting in the continued presence of OPC, urine output dropped dramatically, to levels not significantly different from that seen in (nonthirsted) control animals. In parallel with this, AQP2 levels rose to control levels. Control experiments confirmed continued effective receptor blockade. These results indicate that the V2-receptor antagonist causes a modest decrease in AQP2 expression that is not a consequence of increased urine flow rate or washout of medullary hypertonicity. However, this decrease is much less marked than that seen in some forms of acquired nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. In conjunction with the effects of thirsting, this suggests that modulation of AQP2 expression is mediated partly, but not exclusively, via V2 receptors.

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Effect of the opioid kappa-receptor agonist U50488H on the secretion of arginine vasopressin. Study on the mechanism of U50488H-induced diuresis.

The effect of U50488H, a potent opioid kappa-receptor agonist, was investigated on the urine volume and on the secretion of arginine vasopressin (AVP) in response to dehydration or hyperosmolar or hypovolemic stimulation in conscious rats. This agonist markedly increased the urine volume in normally hydrated rats and suppressed plasma AVP in a dose-dependent manner in rats given hyperosmolar saline. This suppression of plasma AVP was completely reversed by concurrent injection of naloxone. U50488H also inhibited the release of AVP in dehydrated or hypovolemic rats. These findings indicate that the diuresis induced by U50488H is mainly caused by the suppression of plasma AVP. They also suggest that the kappa-opioid receptor plays an important role in regulating the secretion of AVP.

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Modest pressure natriuresis and autoregulation during water diuresis in dogs.

The effects of renal arterial pressure change on renal output of sodium and volume were measured during water diuresis in 25 chloralose-anesthetized dogs. Conditions included a minimal invasive stress, limited sodium administration, and mean renal arterial pressures varied suprarenally, by aortic balloon inflation to lowermost levels of 82-106 mm Hg. Group A dogs received no aldosterone; group B, C and D dogs were given aldosterone. Dogs of group C also received (1-Sar, 8-Ile)-angiotensin II. Group D dogs received phenylephrine which elevated arterial and right atrial pressures moderately without decrease in renal blood flow. In groups A, B and C, mean changes in sodium output, volume output, fractional excretions and free water clearances were not detectable with mean renal arterial pressure reductions, which averaged 29 +/- 2.9, 22 +/- 2.8 and 27 +/- 5.2 mm Hg, respectively. Right atrial pressures, effective renal blood flows and glomerular filtration rates did not change with the renal arterial pressure changes in these groups. In the group D dogs, during the larger pressure reductions of 54 +/- 6.6 mm Hg from higher values of 158 +/- 7.0 mm Hg, mean urine flow and effective renal blood flow remained constant while glomerular filtration rate and sodium output decreased only slightly. Output efficiency ratios related to perfusion pressure were calculated. With no more than modest pressure-induced excretory changes, it is concluded that excretory sodium and urinary volume autoregulation in concert with nearly perfect circulatory autoregulation were demonstrated with regionally varied mean renal arterial pressure. The same preglomerular myogenic responses to transvascular pressure, which restrict glomerular and transcapillary pressures, are viewed dominantly responsible for both circulatory and excretory autoregulation under normal conditions of minimal stress and low fractional sodium excretions. Homeostatic implications are discussed concerning likely relevance to the Guyton-Coleman theory for the long-term control of arterial blood pressure.

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Osmotic diuresis.

Osmotic diuresis occurs, if nonreabsorbed solutes such as mannitol impair the reabsorption of water. The reduced reabsorption of volume affects in turn the reabsorption and excretion of solutes. Thus, mannitol leads to modest impairment of proximal tubular reabsorption not only of water, but as well of electrolytes (Na, Cl, K, Pi, Ca, but not Mg), urea, and uric acid. Infusion of hypertonic mannitol increases renal blood flow and the glomerular filtration rate of superficial nephrons. The increased perfusion of medulla leads to wash out of medullary hypertonicity. The decline of medullary osmolarity leads to a marked impairment of water reabsorption in descending limbs and possibly to moderate impairment of NaCl, Ca, and Mg reabsorption in the ascending limbs of Henle's loop. In the collecting duct, inhibition is marked of water and urea reabsorption and modest of NaCl reabsorption. A number of open questions remain, such as the mechanisms underlying decrease of renal vascular resistance, increased proximal tubular reabsorption of magnesium, or impaired NaCl reabsorption in thick ascending limbs.

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Urinary excretion of beta2 microglobulin after the induction of a diuresis. A study in healthy subjects.

An increased diuresis was induced in each of four healthy subjects by intravenous infusion of urea, saline and sodium bicarbonate and by an oral water load. The excretion of a low molecular weight protein (LMW-protein), beta2-Microglobulin (beta2mu), was determined by a radioimmunoassay, the urinary concentrations of the protein being in the range 0.007-0,3 mug/ml. The hourly excretion of beta2 mu was not significantly influenced by varying loads of water, sodium, and osmoles which suggests that the tub ular reabsorption of LMW-proteins is stable under these conditions and that even a moderately increased excretion of such proteins may reflect a distrubed proximal tubular function.

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Albumin excretion by the kidney: the effects of osmotic diuresis.

Urine albumin excretion rate in female Sprague-Dawley rats was measured duing a stable period of normal hydration and following mannitol-induced osmotic diuresis. Mannitol infusion resulted in a significant increase in urine volume and fractional excretion of sodium, but glomerular filtration rate, albumin excretion rate, and the sieving coefficient for albumin remained stable. The results suggest that under physiological conditions, changes in albumin excretion are dependent upon changes in glomerular filtration rather than urine flow.

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Hydrochlorothiazide diuresis in healthy man: review of the circadian mediation.

This is a review of evidence for a circadian-mediated pharmacology of a single dose of hydrochlorothiazide in normal man. The normal circadian rhythms of urine volume and electrolytes are discussed in detail. Information is documented that hydrochlorothiazide diuresis, in normal subjects on a normal schedule of diurnal activity/nocturnal rest, progressively increases for 4 h after a.m. administration and for 8 h after p.m. administration. This suggests that the therapeutic efficiency of a single dose may be enhanced (nearly 50%) by the simple expedient of prescribing in the afternoon. No information is provided as to whether the circadian-mediated response appertains in disease or with continued drug administration. The word 'circadian' is not found in classical pharmacological texts although many examples of circadian-mediated drug action have now been described. A circadian reappraisal of drug effects in general is overdue.

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Influence of CAPD and residual diuresis on the serum levels of alpha-1-microglobulin in end-stage renal disease.

The chronic retention of proteins of low molecular weight (LMWP) seems to be connected with some unsolved problems of end-stage renal disease (e.g. reduced immune function, AB amyloidosis, hormonal imbalances), irrespective of the type of renal replacement therapy. Therefore, several recently discovered LMWPs such as alpha 1-microglobulin have to be evaluated concerning their contribution to the uremic syndrome. Although we observed a considerable daily loss of total protein into the CAPD dialysate, no differences were found in the removal of small proteins (MW less than 68 kilodaltons) when compared to conventional hemodialysis. Maintenance of renal function (residual diuresis greater than 100 ml/day) seems to be more potent keeping the serum concentrations of LMWP low than CAPD or hemodialysis.

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Role of the renal prostaglandins in furosemide-induced diuresis.

The role of the renal prostaglandin (PG) system in the renal effects of furosemide was assessed by using indomethacin, an inhibitor of PG synthetase, in conscious rats under conditions of vasopressin infusion (or dehydration). Urinary PGE and PGF2 alpha were measured by radioimmunoassay under conditions of furosemide-induced diuresis. The diuretic and natriuretic effects of furosemide were accompanied by a concomitant increase in the urinary excretion of PGE. In normal rats the pretreatment of indomethacin at 10 mg/kg failed to alter the diuretic effect of furosemide (5 mg/kg). In contrast, the diuretic effect of furosemide in vasopressin (2 U/kg)-infused (or dehydrated) rats was greatly inhibited by indomethacin. In regard to the natriuretic effect of furosemide, indomethacin did impair this response to furosemide both in normal and vasopressin-infused (or dehydrated) rats, but inhibited more strongly in the latter than in the former. These results suggest that the renal PGE is necessary for furosemide to produce optimal diuretic and natriuretic effects under conditions of vasopressin infusion (or dehydration).

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