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(Hypertension. 1999;33:472-475.)
© 1999 American Heart Association, Inc.

Scientific Contributions

Renal Mechanoreceptor Dysfunction

An Intermediate Phenotype in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Gerald F. DiBona; Susan Y. Jones; Ulla C. Kopp

From the Departments of Internal Medicine and Physiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa.

Abstract—This study tested the hypothesis that decreased responsiveness of renal mechanosensitive neurons constitutes an intermediate phenotype in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Decreased responsiveness of these sensory neurons would contribute to increased renal sympathetic nerve activity and sodium retention, characteristic findings in hypertension. A backcross population, developed by mating borderline hypertensive rats with Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) (the F₁ of a cross between an SHR and a normotensive WKY), was fed 8% NaCl food for 12 weeks from age 4 to 16 weeks. Responses to increases in ureteral pressure to 20 and 40 mm Hg in 80 backcross rats instrumented for measurement of mean arterial pressure and afferent renal nerve activity were determined. Mean arterial pressure ranged from 110 to 212 mm Hg and was inversely correlated with the magnitude of the increase in afferent renal nerve activity during increased ureteral pressure. Thus, decreased responsiveness of renal mechanosensitive neurons cosegregated with hypertension in this backcross population. This aspect of the complex quantitative trait of altered renal sympathetic neural control of renal function, ie, decreased renal mechanoreceptor responsiveness, is part of an intermediate phenotype in SHR.

Key Words: afferent renal nerve activity • rats, inbred SHR • mechanoreceptors

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