Uranyl Nitrate Acute Renal Failure in the Dog: Early Changes in Renal Function and Haemodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Kleinman ◽  
J. S. McNeil ◽  
W. Flamenbaum

1. Sodium excretion, plasma renin activity (PRA), inulin clearance, total renal blood flow (RBF), renal cortical radiomicrosphere distribution and systemic haemodynamics were examined during the first 3 h after intravenous administration of uranyl nitrate (19.9 μmol/kg body wt.; 10 mg/kg) in the dog. 2. During the 3 h of study after uranyl nitrate, urine flow remained stable or increased, sodium excretion increased approximately fivefold, renal vascular resistance increased threefold, and concordant decreases in RBF and inulin clearance to 40–50% of control values occurred. At 3 h total cortical RBF decreased to 35% of control values and the ratio of blood flow in outer to inner cortical zones also decreased, reflecting outer cortical ischaemia. PRA increased in the first hour after uranyl nitrate and slowly declined thereafter, though not to control values. 3. Respiratory rate, heart rate, mean systemic blood pressure and cardiac output were unchanged after uranyl nitrate, demonstrating that the changes in renal vascular resistance occurred without a change in peripheral vascular resistance. 4. It is postulated that increased renin-angiotensin system activity mediates the change in renal haemodynamics and the consequent fall in glomerular filtration.

1979 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 463-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Van Brummelen ◽  
M. Woerlee ◽  
M. A. D. H. Schalekamp

1. Renal blood flow, glomerular filtration rate, renal vascular resistance and filtration fraction were studied in ten patients with essential hypertension, during placebo, and after 1 week, 3, 6 and 9 months of hydrochlorothiazide. Plasma renin concentration and urinary excretion of vanillylmandelic acid were also measured. 2. Mean arterial pressure was lowered significantly during hydrochlorothiazide, the long-term effect being slightly more pronounced than the short-term effect. 3. The decrease in renal blood flow during the first week (P < 0·01) was followed by a progressive rise. After 9 months renal blood flow was above placebo level in eight of the ten patients. After an initial decrease, glomerular filtration rate returned gradually to its original value. Renal vascular resistance and filtration fraction increased during the first week and declined thereafter. After 3, 6 and 9 months renal vascular resistance was significantly lower compared with placebo values. 4. Plasma renin concentration and urinary excretion of vanillylmandelic acid increased significantly during the first week of hydrochlorothiazide. Subsequently, vanillylmandelic acid fell to below pretreatment amounts (P < 0·05), whereas plasma renin concentration remained elevated. 5. Long-term treatment of essential hypertension with hydrochlorothiazide has a favourable effect on abnormal renal haemodynamics. Besides the influence of blood pressure reduction per se, humoral and neural factors may be involved.


1993 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ton J. Rabelink ◽  
Karin A. van Tilborg ◽  
Ronald J. Hené ◽  
Hein A. Koomans

1. Recently implanted kidneys may have decreased flexibility to adjust sodium excretion to volume challenges, since modulation by renal sympathetic nerve activity is absent. To examine this hypothesis, we studied the natriuretic response to head-out water immersion in eight patients with well-functioning renal allografts of 37 days (range 24–56 days), at a time when renal re-innervation has probably not occurred. 2. By the third hour of head-out water immersion, sodium excretion had increased equally in the patients (from 120 +21 to 204 +37 μmol/min) and in eight healthy control subjects (from 105 +9 to 191+19 μmol/min). 3. Glomerular filtration rate was 60 + 6 ml/min in the patients and 113 +6 ml/min in the control subjects, and did not change upon head-out water immersion. Estimated renal plasma flow increased upon head-out water immersion in the control group but not in the patients. Blood pressure decreased similarly in both groups. The renal vascular resistance, calculated from these data, decreased in response to head-out water immersion in the control subjects but not in the renal transplant patients. 4. Head-out water immersion suppressed plasma renin activity only in the normal group, whereas the plasma aldosterone level was suppressed in both groups. The natriuretic response in patients was associated with about 3-fold elevated plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide. 5. Since renal re-innervation at 37 days after transplantation is very unlikely, these data suggest that inact renal innervation is not mandatory for a normal natriuretic response to head-out water immersion in humans. However, sympathetic modulation might be involved in the decrease in renal vascular resistance and plasma renin activity normally observed during immersion.


1977 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. D. H. Schalekamp ◽  
W. H. Birkenhäger ◽  
G. A. Zaal ◽  
G. Kolsters

1. Intra-arterial pressure, cardiac output, renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate were measured in 19 patients with low-renin hypertension and in 30 patients with normal-renin hypertension. 2. Cardiac output and renal blood flow were significantly lower in low-renin hypertension. Total peripheral and renal vascular resistance were markedly higher in this group. 3. Plasma renin concentration correlated inversely with both total peripheral and renal vascular resistance as well as with age. Multiple regression analysis indicated that part of the relationship between renin and haemodynamic variables did not depend on age. Furthermore, plasma renin concentration did not decrease with age in a group of 40 normotensive control subjects of similar age to the hypertensive patients. 4. The results provide further confirmation that renin decreases as hypertension progresses.


1989 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilbert M. T. Janssen ◽  
Dick de Zeeuw ◽  
Gjalt K. van der Hem ◽  
Paul E. de Jong

1. We studied the effect of a low-dose infusion of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on renal blood flow in healthy volunteers. We additionally investigated the effect of ANP on renal haemodynamic function and on urinary sodium excretion. 2. ANP induced a rise in packed cell volume and a slight increase (but no decrease) in the renal extraction of hippuran. These changes did not offset the observed fall in effective renal plasma flow. Renal blood flow thus truly decreased and renal vascular resistance increased. 3. ANP induced an increase in glomerular filtration rate and a decrease in urinary osmolality in the first hour of ANP infusion, whereas absolute and fractional sodium excretion increased significantly only in the second hour of ANP infusion. The decrease in urinary osmolality in the first hour of ANP infusion correlated with the induced natriuresis. The changes in urinary osmolality and sodium excretion both correlated with the changes in plasma ANP levels. 4. These data indicate that ANP may cause a decrease in renal blood flow and an increase of renal vascular resistance in man. Our results suggest a role for ANP-induced (intra)renal haemodynamic changes in ANP-induced natriuresis, possibly through an increase in the filtered load of sodium into a washed-out medullary interstitium.


1975 ◽  
Vol 229 (3) ◽  
pp. 640-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Satoh ◽  
BG Zimmerman

Partial occlusion of the renal artery (RAO) was induced in dogs anesthetized with pentobarbital or morphine chloralose-urethan. The effect of [Sar1, Ala8]angiotensin II (P-113) was compared before and during RAO on blood flow and vascular resistance of the contralateral kidney. An increase in renin secretion rate was obtained in the ischemic kidney, which was accompanied by an increase in renal vascular resistance (RVR) in the contralateral kidney and a rise in systemic blood pressure. P-113 given intra-arterially to the contralateral kidney consistently increased renal blood flow and decreased RVR during RAO, but did not alter RVR significantly before RAO. The elevation in renin secretion rate decreased between 30 and 122 min after the initiation of RAO in the pentobarbital-anesthetized dogs but not in the chloralose-urethan-anesthetized dogs. These experiments indicate that during RAO release of renin causes, through formation of angiotensin, an increase in RVR in the contralateral kidney and intra-arterial administration of P-113 restores the vascular resistance to a near-normal level.


1981 ◽  
Vol 241 (2) ◽  
pp. H145-H148
Author(s):  
B. G. Zimmerman ◽  
C. Mommsen

Sequential changes in systemic arterial blood pressure (BP), renal blood flow (RBF) in the contralateral kidney, and plasma renin activity (PRA) were examined on conscious dogs with construction of a single renal artery (RAC). An increase of 24 mmHg in bP occurred within 2 days after RAC, and BP later plateaued at a lower level. RBF in the contralateral kidney transiently increased by 24% and then returned to the control level in 11-14 days. PRA also peaked early after RAC and then returned to control. The clamp was tightened and the renal artery was occluded (RAO) 3-20 days after RAC. BP, RBF, and PRA increased to an even greater degree than after RAC. BP peaked at 145 mmHg, and RBF increased 61.5% at 2-3 days after RAO. BP and RBF both decreased but remained above the control for the duration of the study, BP at 127 mmHg and RBF at 256 ml/min. RBF per gram for the hypertrophied contralateral kidney was calculated from the RBF before death and the weight at death. The final RBF per gram of the contralateral kidney (2.7 ml.min-1.g-1) decreased and renal vascular resistance increased compared with the estimated control RBF/g (3.7 ml.min-1.g-1) and renal vascular resistance. These results suggest that the final RBF of the contralateral kidney is not increased in proportion to its increase in weight and that it may be relatively hypoperfused in two-kidney one-clip Goldblatt hypertension.


1985 ◽  
Vol 249 (5) ◽  
pp. F680-F687 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Morita ◽  
S. F. Vatner

Effects of acute volume expansion with isotonic isoncotic 3% dextran in saline were examined on renal nerve activity (RNA), renal blood flow, vascular resistance, and sodium and water excretion in conscious dogs. In intact dogs, acute volume expansion increased mean arterial pressure 15 +/- 3 mmHg, left atrial pressure 5.5 +/- 0.6 mmHg, and decreased RNA 88 +/- 2%, whereas renal blood flow did not change and renal vascular resistance increased slightly. When renal perfusion pressure was maintained at control levels, volume expansion decreased RNA 87 +/- 2% and renal vascular resistance 15 +/- 4%. During the 80-min period after volume expansion, urine flow rate increased 0.66 +/- 0.13 ml/min and sodium excretion rose 3.89 +/- 0.54 mueq X min-1 X kg-1, whereas RNA remained depressed. Arterial baroreceptor denervation (ABD) did not diminish responses of RNA, renal blood flow, renal vascular resistance, or sodium and water excretion to volume expansion. After ABD plus bilateral cervical vagotomy, volume expansion did not decrease RNA, and diuretic and natriuretic responses were significantly attenuated (P less than 0.025). However, responses of renal blood flow to volume expansion were not altered significantly. In conscious dogs with renal denervation, responses of renal blood flow to volume expansion were not impaired, whereas diuretic and natriuretic responses were attenuated (P less than 0.025). Thus, in intact conscious dogs, vagally mediated reflex decreases in RNA induced by acute volume expansion exerted a significant effect on sodium and water excretion but little control of renal blood flow and renal vascular resistance.


1986 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mr J. K. Evans ◽  
P. F. Naish ◽  
G. M. Aber

1. The effect of oestrone acetate (in total doses of 5 and 10 mg) on systemic and renal haemodynamics and the renin-angiotensin system has been studied in adult female rats. 2. The administration of 10 mg of oestrogen resulted in a significant fall in renal blood flow associated with significant rises in both renal vascular resistance and mean arterial pressure. No changes were noted in cardiac output or total peripheral resistance at either dose. 3. Whilst the higher dose of oestrogen induced a significant increase in plasma renin activity, no change was noted in animals receiving 5 mg of oestrogen. Both regimens caused significant reductions in plasma and intrarenal renin concentrations. 4. Although renal blood flow correlated with plasma renin activity in animals with a normal renal blood flow, no such correlation was noted in animals with oestrogen-induced reductions in renal blood flow. 5. The present study demonstrates that oestrogen-induced reductions in renal blood flow result from a rise in intrarenal vascular resistance which cannot be accounted for by simultaneous changes in either plasma renin activity or renal renin concentration.


1962 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Nickel ◽  
John A. Gagnon ◽  
Leonard Levine

Eight anesthetized dogs, given Clostridium perfringens type A toxic filtrate into the hind-limb muscles, showed severe spreading edema, hemoconcentration, marked reduction in para-aminohippurate (PAH) and creatinine clearances, and a rise in the renal vascular resistance. In the first 4 hr sodium excretion fell sharply, and mean arterial blood pressure, slightly. In eight similar dogs venous-occlusive pneumatic tourniquets were applied high on both hind limbs for 90 min. Edema was localized and minimal. Hematocrit was unchanged. PAH and creatinine clearances were extremely low in the second 30-min period of the occlusion but had risen somewhat in the last 30-min period. Sodium excretion was greatly reduced. Arterial pressure and vascular resistance rose very significantly. Upon removal of the tourniquets, PAH and creatinine clearances, blood pressure, and renal vascular resistance returned toward normal. Sodium excretion continued to fall. In many respects the renal changes resulting from two different forms of peripheral trauma are similar. Submitted on August 14, 1959


1986 ◽  
Vol 251 (5) ◽  
pp. H897-H902
Author(s):  
D. Neisius ◽  
J. M. Wood ◽  
K. G. Hofbauer

The relative importance of angiotensin II for the renal vasodilatory response after converting-enzyme inhibition was evaluated by a comparison of the effects of converting-enzyme and renin inhibition on renal vascular resistance. Renal, mesenteric, and hindquarter blood flows were measured with chronically implanted ultrasonic-pulsed Doppler flow probes in conscious, mildly volume-depleted marmosets after administration of a converting-enzyme inhibitor (enalaprilat, 2 mg/kg iv), a synthetic renin inhibitor (CGP 29,287, 1 mg/kg iv), or a renin-inhibitory monoclonal antibody (R-3-36-16, 0.1 mg/kg iv). Enalaprilat reduced blood pressure (-16 +/- 4 mmHg, n = 6) and induced a selective increase in renal blood flow (27 +/- 8%, n = 6). CGP 29,287 and R-3-36-16 induced comparable reductions in blood pressure (-16 +/- 4 mmHg, n = 6 and -20 +/- 4 mmHg, n = 5, respectively) and selective increases in renal blood flow (36 +/- 12%, n = 6 and 34 +/- 16%, n = 4, respectively). The decrease in renal vascular resistance was of similar magnitude for all of the inhibitors (enalaprilat -28 +/- 3%, CGP 29,287 -32 +/- 6%; and R-3-36-16 -33 +/- 7%). These results indicate that the renal vasodilatation induced after converting-enzyme or renin inhibition is mainly due to decreased formation of angiotensin II.


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