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Nerve-Mediated Antidiuresis and Antinatriuresis After Air-Jet Stress Is Modulated by Angiotensin II
the Department of Medicine–Nephrology, University of Erlangen–Nurnberg, and Department of Medicine–Nephrology, Schwabing City Hospital, Munich (J.F.E.M.), FRG.
Correspondence to Roland Veelken, MD, Department of Medicine IV, University of Erlangen–Nurnberg, Loschgestraße 8½, 91054 Erlangen, FRG.
A putative interaction between angiotensin II (Ang II) and the sympathetic nervous system within the kidney has been reported. We tested the hypothesis in conscious rats that endogenous Ang II modulates the renal effects of a stress-induced increase in sympathetic nerve activity. We recorded mean arterial blood pressure, heart rate, renal sympathetic nerve activity, renal hemodynamics, urine volume, and urinary sodium content in conscious rats. We used the Ang II type 1 receptor blocker ZD 7155 to inhibit the effects of endogenous Ang II. Ten minutes of air-jet stress increased renal sympathetic nerve activity by 98±4% (n=6) without changing systemic hemodynamics. Air-jet stress reduced urine volume (from 31±3 to 8±4 µL/min per gram kidney weight, P<.05, n=12) and sodium excretion (from 4.3±0.9 to 1.2±0.3 µmol/min per gram kidney weight, P<.05, n=12). After renal denervation, air-jet stress had no effect on either parameter. Six micrograms of the Ang II type 1 receptor inhibitor ZD 7155 blunted the decrease in urine volume and sodium excretion in response to air-jet stress, although the increase in renal sympathetic nerve activity during air-jet stress and the pressor response to exogenous Ang II were not affected. Glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow were also not affected. Higher doses of 30 and 60 µg ZD 7155 inhibited the pressor response to exogenous Ang II and abolished the changes in urine volume and sodium excretion in response to air-jet stress. None of the ZD 7155 doses affected urinary sodium excretion permanently. Hence, the Ang II type 1 receptor antagonist ZD 7155 impaired or abolished the renal nerve–mediated antinatriuresis and anitidiuresis in response to air-jet stress. We conclude that endogenous Ang II modulates the renal effects of centrally mediated changes of sympathetic nerve activity in conscious rats.
Key Words: angiotensin II • sympathetic nervous system • stress • hemodynamics • rats
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