In:
European Journal of Endocrinology, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 133, No. 1 ( 1995-07), p. 127-132
Abstract:
Ota K, Kimura T, Inoue M, Funyu T, Shoji M, Sato K, Ohta M, Yamamoto T, Abe K, Effects of V 1 - and V 2 -vasopressin (AVP) antagonists on the pressor, AVP and atrial natriuretic peptide responses to a hypertonic saline infusion in conscious anephric rats. Eur J Endocrinol 1995;133:127–32. ISSN 0804–4643 To examine the role of vasopressin (AVP) receptors in the regulation of the hemodynamics and release of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), and the participation of renal nerve inputs in the osmotic AVP release, hypertonic saline (HS) was infused into conscious, bilaterally nephrectomized rats with nonpeptide, selective antagonists for the V 1 -receptor or V 2 -receptor of AVP. In the control group, HS alone increased mean arterial pressure, plasma ANP and AVP, plasma volume and plasma osmolality, and decreased the heart rate. In the V 1 -receptor antagonist group, an increase in the mean arterial pressure and a decrease in heart rate were completely abolished and an increase in plasma ANP was attenuated. In the V 2 -receptor antagonist group, increases in mean arterial pressure and plasma ANP and a decrease in heart rate were attenuated. However, the ratio of the changes in heart rate to the changes in mean arterial pressure in the V 2 -receptor antagonist group is significantly higher than that in the control group. In both experimental groups, increases in plasma AVP, plasma volume and plasma osmolality were not different from those in the control group. These results suggest that a HS-induced increase in mean arterial pressure is mediated by the pressor effect of AVP, mainly through V 1 -receptors, and that the depressor effect of AVP through V 2 -receptors may not influence tonically HS-induced hypertension. Moreover, HS-induced increase in plasma ANP is mediated mainly by increases in plasma volume and blood pressure, but may not be affected by a direct action of AVP to the heart. Renal afferent nerve inputs may not have effects on the regulation of osmotic AVP release. Kozo Ota, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-77, Japan
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0804-4643
,
1479-683X
DOI:
10.1530/eje.0.1330127
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date:
1995
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1485160-X
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