mTORC1 Deficiency Modifies Volume Homeostatic Responses to Dietary Sodium in a Sex-Specific Manner.

Endocrinology
Danielle L BrooksGordon H Williams

Abstract

The mechanistic target of the rapamycin (mTOR) pathway plays a role in features common to both excess salt/aldosterone and cardiovascular/renal diseases. Dietary sodium can upregulate mTORC1 signaling in cardiac and renal tissue, and the inhibition of mTOR can prevent aldosterone-associated, salt-induced hypertension. The impact of sex and age on mTOR's role in volume homeostasis and the regulation of aldosterone secretion is largely unknown. We hypothesize that both age and sex modify mTOR's interaction with volume homeostatic mechanisms. The activity of 3 volume homeostatic mechanisms-cardiovascular, renal, and hormonal (aldosterone [sodium retaining] and brain natriuretic peptide [BNP; sodium losing])-were assessed in mTORC1 deficient (Raptor+/-) and wild-type male and female littermates at 2 different ages. The mice were volume stressed by being given a liberal salt (LibS) diet. Raptor+/-mice of both sexes when they aged: (1) reduced their blood pressure, (2) increased left ventricular internal diameter during diastole, (3) decreased renal blood flow, and (4) increased mineralocorticoid receptor expression. Aldosterone levels did not differ by sex in young Raptor+/- mice. However, as they aged, compared to their littermates...Continue Reading

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