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Hypertension ; 79(7): 1395-1408, 2022 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35545941

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence over the past several years suggests that diurnal control of sodium excretion is sex dependent and involves the renal endothelin system. Given recent awareness of disruptions of circadian function in obesity, we determined whether diet-induced obesity impairs renal handling of an acute salt load at different times of day and whether this varies by sex and is associated with renal endothelin dysfunction. METHODS: Male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were placed on a high-fat diet for 8 weeks before assessing renal sodium handling and blood pressure. RESULTS: Male, but not female, rats on high fat had a significantly reduced natriuretic response to acute NaCl injection at the beginning of their active period that was associated with lower endothelin 1 (ET-1) excretion, lower ET-1 mRNA expression in the cortex and outer medulla as well as lower ETB receptor expression in the outer medulla of the high-fat rats. Obese males also had significantly higher blood pressure (telemetry) that was exacerbated by adding high salt to the diet during the last 2 weeks. While female rats developed hypertension with a high-fat diet, they were not salt sensitive and ET-1 excretion was unchanged. CONCLUSIONS: These data identify diet-induced obesity as a sex-specific disruptive factor for maintaining proper sodium handling. Although high-fat diets induce hypertension in both sexes, these data reveal that males are at greater risk of salt-dependent hypertension and further suggest that females have more redundant systems that can be productive against salt-sensitive hypertension in at least some circumstances.


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Hypertension , Sodium , Animals , Blood Pressure/physiology , Diet , Endothelin-1/metabolism , Endothelins , Female , Hypertension/metabolism , Male , Obesity/etiology , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Receptor, Endothelin B/genetics , Sex Characteristics , Sodium/metabolism , Sodium Chloride/adverse effects , Sodium Chloride, Dietary/pharmacology
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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol ; 320(5): R630-R640, 2021 05 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33624556

ABSTRACT

Despite advancements in disease management, sickle cell nephropathy, a major contributor to mortality and morbidity in patients, has limited therapeutic options. Previous studies indicate hydroxyurea, a commonly prescribed therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD), can reduce renal injury in SCD but the mechanisms are uncertain. Because SCD is associated with reduced nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability, we hypothesized that hydroxyurea treatment would improve NO bioavailability in the humanized sickle cell mouse. Humanized male 12-wk-old sickle (HbSS) and genetic control (HbAA) mice were treated with hydroxyurea or regular tap water for 2 wk before renal and systemic NO bioavailability as well as renal injury were assessed. Untreated HbSS mice exhibited increased proteinuria, elevated plasma endothelin-1 (ET-1), and reduced urine concentrating ability compared with HbAA mice. Hydroxyurea reduced proteinuria and plasma ET-1 levels in HbSS mice. Untreated HbSS mice had reduced plasma nitrite and elevated plasma arginase concentrations compared with HbAA mice. Hydroxyurea treatment augmented plasma nitrite and attenuated plasma arginase in HbSS mice. Renal vessels isolated from HbSS mice also had elevated nitric oxide synthase 3 (NOS3) and arginase 2 expression compared with untreated HbAA mice. Hydroxyurea treatment did not alter renal vascular NOS3, however, renal vascular arginase 2 expression was significantly reduced. These data support the hypothesis that hydroxyurea treatment augments renal and systemic NO bioavailability by reducing arginase activity as a potential mechanism for the improvement on renal injury seen in SCD mice.


Subject(s)
Anemia, Sickle Cell/drug therapy , Antisickling Agents/pharmacology , Hydroxyurea/pharmacology , Kidney Diseases/drug therapy , Kidney/drug effects , Nitric Oxide/metabolism , Anemia, Sickle Cell/genetics , Anemia, Sickle Cell/metabolism , Animals , Arginase/metabolism , Disease Models, Animal , Hemoglobin A/genetics , Hemoglobin A/metabolism , Hemoglobin, Sickle/genetics , Hemoglobin, Sickle/metabolism , Hemoglobins/genetics , Hemoglobins/metabolism , Humans , Kidney/metabolism , Kidney/pathology , Kidney Diseases/genetics , Kidney Diseases/metabolism , Kidney Diseases/pathology , Male , Mice, Transgenic , Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III/metabolism , Proteinuria/drug therapy , Proteinuria/genetics , Proteinuria/metabolism
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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol ; 318(2): R418-R427, 2020 02 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31913682

ABSTRACT

Genes for the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) subunits are expressed in a circadian manner, but whether this results in time-of-day differences in activity is not known. Recent data show that protein expression of ENaC subunits is higher in kidneys from female rats, yet females are more efficient in excreting an acute salt load. Thus, our in vivo study determined whether there is a time-of-day difference as well as a sex difference in the response to ENaC inhibition by benzamil. Our results showed that the natriuretic and diuretic responses to a single dose of benzamil were significantly greater in male compared with female rats whether given at the beginning of the inactive period [Zeitgeber time 0 (ZT0), 7 AM] or active period (ZT12, 7 PM). However, the response to benzamil was not significantly different between ZT0 and ZT12 dosing in either male or female rats. There was no difference in renal cortical α-ENaC protein abundance between ZT0 and ZT12 or males and females. Given previous reports of flow-induced stimulation of endothelin-1 (ET-1) production and sex differences in the renal endothelin system, we measured urinary ET-1 excretion to assess the effects of increased urine flow on intrarenal ET-1. ET-1 excretion was significantly increased following benzamil administration in both sexes, but this increase was significantly greater in females. These results support the hypothesis that ENaC activity is less prominent in maintaining Na+ balance in females independent of renal ET-1. Because ENaC subunit genes and protein expression vary by time of day and are greater in female rat kidneys, this suggests a clear disconnect between ENaC expression and channel activity.


Subject(s)
Amiloride/analogs & derivatives , Epithelial Sodium Channel Blockers/pharmacology , Epithelial Sodium Channels/drug effects , Kidney/drug effects , Natriuresis/drug effects , Activity Cycles , Amiloride/pharmacology , Animals , Endothelin-1/urine , Epithelial Sodium Channels/metabolism , Female , Kidney/metabolism , Male , Ovariectomy , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Renal Elimination/drug effects , Sex Factors , Time Factors , Urodynamics/drug effects
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