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F Kiil

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Renal energy metabolism and sodium reabsorption after 2,4-dinitrophenol administration.

2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) (10 mg/kg body wt i.v.) increased renal cortical and outer medullary heat production rates and oxygen consumption by 70-90% in anesthetized dogs over a 90-min observation period without exerting any natriuretic effect. To examine whether DNP inhibited proximal reabsorption and increased distal delivery, ethacrynic acid (3 mg/kg body wt) was infused during maximal DNP effect. Sodium reabsorption fell by 14 +/- 6% in the cortex and 55 +/- 8% in the outer medulla, not significantly different from control experiments without DNP. Conversely, after ethacrynic acid administration, DNP had no additional natriuretic effect. Since DNP did not stimulate renal anaerobic metabolism (no lactate release), the effect of DNP was examined during hypoxia induced by intravenous infusion of NaCN (0.2 mumol/kg body wt-min) until renal metabolic rates fell. Subsequent infusion of DNP reduced tubular sodium reabsorption from 90 +/- 2 to 78 +/- 6%. Thus, DNP may raise renal metabolic rates by 70-90% without inhibiting sodium reabsorption, but, under conditions of hypoxia, DNP reduces sodium reabsorption and increases sodium excretion.

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Mechanism of renin release during acute ureteral constriction in dogs.

The relationship between renal arterial pressure and renin release was examined in anesthetized dogs during complete or partial ureteral constriction. During complete ureteral occlusion ureteral pressure rose to 95+/-4 mm Hg and renin release increased from 1.7+/-0.7 to 22.3+/-3.1 mug/min; renal blood flow (RBF) was not significantly changed. Renin release was not further increased during subsequent renal arterial constriction; RBF fell in proportion to perfusion pressure, indicating maximum autoregulated arteriolar dilation. During partial ureteral constriction to a ureteral pressure of 65+/-6 mm Hg, renin release was moderately raised but release mechanisms became fully stimulated when renal arterial pressure was reduced to 104+/-3 mm Hg. By further constricted of the renal artery, RBF fell in proportion to perfusion pressure and renin release remained high and constant. In control experiments without ureteral constriction, renal arterial pressure had to be reduced to below 65+/-8 mm Hg to fully stimulate renin release (22.0+/-3.8 mug/ml which is not different from 22.3+/-3.1 mug/min during ureteral occlusion). During partial ureteral constriction, saline infusion (0.9% NaCl at 40 ml/min) raised urine flow, sodium excretion, renal pelvic pressure, and renin release. Thus, the stimulatory effect on renin release of a rise in ureteral pressure exceeded the inhibitory effect of increased sodium excretion. This observation, together with maximum renin release coinciding with complete arteriolar dilation during various combinations of renal arterial and ureteral constriction, is compatible with the conclusion that arteriolar dilation is predominating stimulus to renin release during ureteral constriction.

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Hemodynamic mechanisms influencing sodium excretion during angiotensin infusion.

To examine mechanisms of transition between antinatriuresis and natriuresis, angiotensin II was first infused intrarenally (0.001-0.07 mug/kg-min) in anesthetized dogs; glomerular filtration rate (GFR), sodium excretion, and intrarenal pressure (IRP), indicating tubular pressure, fell as during mechanical aortic constriction. During supplementary intravenous infusion (0.10-0.30 mug/kg-min), renal blood flow (RBF) rose toward control (tachyphylaxis). Tubular reabsorption increased but was still 17.1% below control. Filtration fraction averaging 0.31 remained constant. Sodium excretion and IRP exceeded control but were normalized by restoring renal arterial pressure mechanically. During intrarenal angiotensin infusion, carotid constriction increased blood pressure more, but RBF, IRP, and sodium excretion less than intravenous angiotensin. Intrarenal infusion of angiotensin at 0.10-0.20 mug/kg-min increased RBF and sodium excretion more in infused than in contralateral kidneys. Thus, angiotensin natriuresis depends on increased perfusion pressure and is augmented as tachyphylaxis develops. High correlation between sodium excretion and IRP at unchanged filtration fraction suggests a regulation of sodium excretion by hydrostatic rather than oncotic pressures in glomerular and peritubular capillaries.

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Dopamine-induced dissociation between renal metabolic rate and sodium reabsorption.

The stimulatory effect of dopamine on renal energy metabolism and its relationship to changes in tubular sodium reabsorption and plasma concentration of free fatty acids (FFA) were examined in anesthetized dogs. Dopamine infused intravenously at 25 mug/kg body wt-min for 30-60 min increased renal oxygen consumption (Rvo2) by 28 +/- 3%; glomerular filtration rate rose from 37 +/- 3 to 40 +/- 2 ml/min without significant changes in sodium excretion. Plasma FFA increased about 6 times. Total-body metabolic rate increased to 152 +/- 7% and fell to 119 +/- 5% of control after normalizing plasma FFA by beta-pyridylcarbinol; Rvo2 remained unchanged. Cortical and outer medullary heat accumulation rated increased to 137 +/- 6 and 133 +/- 10% after 1 h and to 163 +/- 18 and 179 +/- 26% of control after 2 h of dopamine infusion without further changes in sodium reabsorption. Furosemide reduced cortical and outer medullary metabolic rates as much as in control experiments (14 +/- 8 and 69 +/- 7%, respectively). Hence, dopamine exerts a renal calorigenic effect which cannot be accounted for by increased sodium reabsorption or attributed to increased supply of FFA.

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Left ventricular function during acute elevation of aortic blood pressure in dogs.

Cardiac responses to mechanical constriction of the aorta proximal and distal to the arch arteries and to intravenous infusion of angiotensin were examined in open-chest atropinized dogs during continuous recording of left ventricular and aortic dimensions by means of ultrasonic elements. Proximal constriction reduced stroke volume by 18% both before and during isoproterenol infusion without changing left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, dimensions, or contractility, (dP/dt)IP; angiotensin induced less pronounced increments in stroke volume and end-diastolic volume. By combining proximal constriction with saline-dextran infusion, stroke volume and end-diastolic volume increased as during distal constriction. These results indicate that differences in preload account for the differences in stroke volume responses to proximal and distal aortic constriction. We propose that increased preload is caused by redistribution of blood from capacitance vessels rather than retention secondary to cardiac decompensation.

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Effect of acetazolamide on glomerular balance and renal metabolic rate.

Glomerulotubular balance, defined as proportionality between filtered and reabsorbed sodium during inhibition of sodium reabsorption in the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop (diluting segment), was examined in anaesthetized dogs by gradual reduction of renal arterial pressure. In control experiments, glomerulotubular balance applied over the whole rante of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) examined but was absent after acetazolamide administration (30 mg/kg/body wt) at GFR above 50% of control. Hence, the inhibitory effect of acetazolamide varied with GFR. At control GFR, acetazolamide reduced tubular sodium reabsorption by 32 +/- 2% chloride reabsorption by 34 +/- 3%, and bicarbonate reabsorption by 52 +/- 2%; no significant effect was observed at GFR below 50% of control. For each bicarbonate ion, three sodium ions and two chloride ions were inhibited. Measurements of renal oxygen consumption and heat accumulation rates showed that acetazolamide did not reduce renal metabolic rate significantly. It is proposed that energy-requiring hydrogen ion secretion occurs at unchanges rate during variations in GFR but that back leakage of hydrogen ions varies with bicarbonate concentration in tubular fluid. Net secretion of hydrogen ions is associated with bicarbonate transport into the intercellular space and is linked with sodium reabsorption. The concentration difference of bicarbonate salts over the tight junction (zonula occludens), which is much less permeable to bicarbonate than to sodium chloride, provides the osmotic force for reabsorption of water and sodium chloride from the tubular lumen into the intercellular space. Glomerulotubular balance is mediated by variations in filtered amounts of bicarbonate.

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Influence of ethacrynic acid on intrarenal renin release mechanisms.

Ethacrynic acid infused i.v. in anesthetized dogs after inhibiting sympathetic mechanisms of renin release increased renal blood flow rate (RBF) by 54% and practically abolished autoregulation of RBF; renin release increased from 0.8 +/- 0.9 (mean +/- SEM) to 16.4 +/- 3.7 mug/min (P less than 0.05). Without infusion of ethacrynic acid; constriction of the renal artery to a pressure below the range of autoregulation reduced renovascular resistance markedly and renin release rose to 27.2 +/- 5.5 mug/min (P less than 0.05). During arterial constriction, ethacrynic acid had no additional effect on renovascular resistance or renin release averaging 28.4 +/- 6.7 mug/min. Infusion of ethacrynic acid and saline at control pressure increased sodium excretion to about one-half of the filtrate and reduced rein release which did not, however, return to control. Infusion of hypertonic saline during autoregulated vasodilatation induced by arterial constriction had a similar effect, but again renin release continued to exceed control. We propose that ethacrynic acid increases renin release through a hemodynamic mechanism triggered by afferent arteriolar dilation and inhibits renin release by greatly increasing the delivery of sodium to the distal convoluted tubules.

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Myocardial function in general and regional left ventricular ischaemia in dogs at control and high aortic blood pressure.

End-diastolic dilation and reduced systolic shortening are the characteristic dimensional changes during myocardial ischaemia. Elevation of systolic aortic blood pressure by 5.3 kPa (40 mm Hg) normalized shortening and reduced myocardial dilatation when the tissue rendered ischaemic by coronary artery occlusion was less than 20% of the left ventricle. However, when the ischaemic lesion was more extensive, an adverse effect of raising aortic blood pressure was observed.

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Relationship between ST-segment elevation and local tissue flow during myocardial ischaemia in dogs.

The relationship between electrocardiographic ST-segment changes and local tissue flow recorded from idential sites in the myocardium was determined by inserting platinum electrodes into the left ventricular wall of anaesthetized dogs. Local myocardial blood flow was measured during graded coronary constriction by recording tissue hydrogen desaturation rate. In the detection of ischaemic ST-segment elevation, intramural recordings proved to be more sensitive than corresponding epicardial recordings. Significant ST-segment elevation could only be detected by reducing local myocardial flow below 50% of control; by further reduction ST-segment elevation increased in proportion to the reduction in myocardial flow. Thus, significant myocardial ischaemia might exist without electrocardiographic alterations.

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Renal autoregulation: evidence for the transmural pressure hypothesis.

Autoregulation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was examined during uteral orarterial constriction in anesthetized dogs after renal denervation. GFR was sustaineduntil ureteral pressure greater than 80 mmHg, provided renal arterial pressure exceeded 180 mmHg, but fell at ureteral pressure less than 54 mmHg when arterial pressure averaged 127 plus or minus 5 mmHg; renal blood rose as GFR declined. Ethacrynic acid, saline, or mannitol infusion increased tubular pressure without reducing GFR,but during subsequent ureteral constriction GFR fell at uteral pressure less than 40mmHg. During arterial constriction GFR was maintained at lower arterial pressures in hydropenic than in diuretic dogs. Because of thisdifference in the range of autoregulation, saline infusion increased GFR more in hydropenic than in diuretic dogs except at high arterial pressure. This response to reduced plasma oncotic pressure and the constancy of GFR over a wide range of proximal tubular and arterial pressure indicate constancy of thehydrostatic transmural pressure of glomerular capillaries. Afferent arteriolar resistance is, in addition to a regulation by transmural pressure, perhaps controlled by vascular stretch receptors in the glomeruli.

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Effect of cyanide on renal metabolic rate and glomerulotubular balance.

Measurements of anesthetized dogs by the heat-accumulation technique showed that cyanide reduced equally the metabolic rates of outer medulla and cortex, whereas combined infusion of ethacrynic acid and chlorothiazide reduced mainly the metabolic rate of the outer medulla. During ethacrynic acid and chlorothiazide infusion, cyanide reduced the remaining sodium reabsorption by an average of 19% and the remaining cortical metabolic rate by 43%, but had no additional effect on the outer medullary metabolism. Metabolic rates remained essentially constant when glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was raised during cyanide infusion from 63 plus or minus 3 to 135 plus or minus 7% of control by carotid constriction or intravenous infusion of angiotensin. Glomerulotubular balance, defined as proportional relationship between sodium reabsorption and GFR during infusion of ethacrynic acid and chlorothiazide, was present only at GFR less than 80% of control in experiments with and without cyanide infusion. We conclude that cyanide inhibits proximal energy-requiring sodium transport which cannot be inhibited by ethacrynic acid and chlorothiazide, but does not alter the range of GFR over which glomerulotubular balance applies.

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