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Hypertension, Vol 13, 15-21, Copyright © 1989 by American Heart Association

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Acute sodium loading alters sodium pump in Caucasian hypertensive subjects

JB Smith, NS Fineberg, MB Wade and MH Weinberger
Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

The effect of an acute saline load on the sodium pump was determined from measurements of intracellular sodium and potassium, ouabain- inhibitable sodium efflux, and the number of sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na,K-ATPase) sites per cell (using 3H-ouabain binding) of erythrocytes from 22 hypertensive and 21 normotensive subjects before and after a 2-1 infusion of 0.9% saline over a 4-hour period. Before the infusion, ouabain-inhibitable sodium efflux was the only measured parameter that was significantly (p less than 0.025) different between hypertensive (1.65 +/- 0.21 mmol/l red blood cell [RBC]/hr) and normotensive (1.46 +/- 0.25 mmol/l RBC/hr) subjects. After the saline infusion, there was a significant (p less than 0.001) decrease in the ouabain-sensitive sodium efflux of the hypertensive (1.55 +/- 0.22 mmol/l RBC/hr) but not of the normotensive (1.48 +/- 0.43 mmol/l RBC/hr) subjects. Although the changes in intracellular sodium of the normotensive and hypertensive subjects caused by the saline infusion were not significant, the fact that the change was in opposite directions in the two groups yielded a significant (p less than 0.02) differential response. After the saline infusion there was a significant increase in intracellular potassium (p less than 0.001, paired t test) and in the 3H-ouabain-binding affinity constant (p less than 0.001, paired t test) for both hypertensive and normotensive subjects. A second-order rate constant, which is an estimate of the apparent affinity constant of the sodium pump, was calculated from the ouabain-inhibitable sodium efflux, the intracellular sodium, and the number of Na,K-ATPase sites per cell.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)