Enalapril and pressure-diuresis in hypertensive rats transgenic for mouse renin gene

Kidney & Blood Pressure Research
J E SpringateD Ganten

Abstract

The recent development of a transgenic rat strain bearing the mouse ren-2 renin gene [TGR(mRen2)27] has provided a new monogenetic model of hypertension. Other hypertensive rat strains are characterized by a blunted pressure-diuresis-natriuresis response such that higher renal perfusion pressures are required to excrete normal amounts of water and sodium. Dysfunction of the renin-angiotensin and nitric oxide systems may cause in this abnormality. This study examined the effect of enalapril on the pressure-natriuresis response and urinary nitric oxide metabolite excretion in 6-month-old TGR(mRen2)27 rats. The slope of the line relating renal perfusion pressure and urine flow rate in TGR (0.08+/-0.01 microl x min(-1) x g kidney weight(-1) mm Hg[-1]) was significantly lower than that in control rats (0.15+/-0.01 microl x min(-1) x g kidney weight(-1) mm Hg[-1]). Pressure-natriuresis responses were also shifted to higher pressure levels in TGR. Treatment with enalapril for 3 months lowered the mean arterial pressure from 94+/-2 to 84+/-4 mm Hg in control rats and from 146+/-3 to 89+/-3 mm Hg in TGR. The slopes of lines relating renal perfusion pressure and urine flow rate as well as sodium excretion were significantly increased by ...Continue Reading

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May 8, 2001·Clinical and Experimental Hypertension : CHE·I O Dedeoglu, J E Springate
Mar 3, 2007·Pharmacological Reviews·Noboru TodaTomio Okamura
Feb 25, 1998·Pediatric Research·I O Dedeoglu, J E Springate

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