scholarly journals Regulation of Dopamine Uptake by Vasoactive Peptides in the Kidney

Scientifica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
N. L. Rukavina Mikusic ◽  
N. M. Kouyoumdzian ◽  
E. Rouvier ◽  
M. M. Gironacci ◽  
J. E. Toblli ◽  
...  

Considering the key role of renal dopamine in tubular sodium handling, we hypothesized that c-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) and Ang-(1-7) may regulate renal dopamine availability in tubular cells, contributing to Na+, K+-ATPase inhibition. Present results show that CNP did not affect either3H-dopamine uptake in renal tissue or Na+, K+-ATPase activity; meanwhile, Ang-(1-7) was able to increase3H-dopamine uptake and decreased Na+, K+-ATPase activity in renal cortex. Ang-(1-7) and dopamine together decreased further Na+, K+-ATPase activity showing an additive effect on the sodium pump. In addition, hydrocortisone reversed Ang-(1-7)-dopamine overinhibition on the enzyme, suggesting that this inhibition is closely related to Ang-(1-7) stimulation on renal dopamine uptake. Both anantin and cANP (4-23-amide) did not modify CNP effects on3H-dopamine uptake by tubular cells. The Mas receptor antagonist, A-779, blocked the increase elicited by Ang-(1-7) on3H-dopamine uptake. The stimulatory uptake induced by Ang-(1-7) was even more pronounced in the presence of losartan, suggesting an inhibitory effect of Ang-(1-7) on AT1 receptors on3H-dopamine uptake. By increasing dopamine bioavailability in tubular cells, Ang-(1-7) enhances Na+, K+-ATPase activity inhibition, contributing to its natriuretic and diuretic effects.

Hypertension ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chen ◽  
Shuo Zhen ◽  
Laureano Asico ◽  
Pedro Jose ◽  
Chunyu Zeng

Oral NaCl produces stronger natriuresis and diuresis as compared with venous infusion of same amount of NaCl, indicating the existence of renal-gastric axis. Although numerous hormones are secreted in gastrointestinal tract, gastrin is evident one due to its natriuretic effects and taken-up by the renal proximal tubule (RPT) cells. We hypothesize that there is an interaction between gastrin and dopamine receptor in kidney, which synergistically increases sodium excretion, the impaired interaction would be involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension. In WKY rats, infusion of gastrin, via renal artery, induced natriuresis and diuresis, which was blocked in the presence of CI988, a gastrin receptor blocker. Similarly, the natriuretic and diuretic effect of fenoldopam, a D1-like receptor agonist, was blocked by the D1-like receptor antagonist, SCH23390 , indicating that gastrin and fenoldopam, via individual receptor, play natriuretic and diuretic effects. Our further study found that lower dosages of gastrin or fenoldopam could not induce natriuresis and diuresis alone, while putting together induced natriuretic and diuretic effects. The above-mentioned effects were lost in SHRs. We also found, in the presence of SCH23390 , gastrin-mediated natriuresis and diuresis was partially blocked. Similarly, in the presence of CI988, the natriuretic and diuretic effects of fenoldopam were partially blocked, indicating the interaction between gastrin and D1-like receptor. The gastrin/D1-like receptor interaction was also confirmed in the RPT cells. Stimulation of one receptor increased the expression of the other. Stimulation of either D1-like receptor or gastrin receptor inhibited the Na + -K + -ATPase activity in RPT cells, while in the presence of SCH23390 , the inhibitory effect of gastrin on Na + -K + -ATPase activity was partially blocked. In the presence of CI988, D1-like receptor-mediated inhibitory effect of Na + -K + -ATPase activity in RPT cells was partially inhibited. It indicated the synergistic effect between gastrin and D1-like receptor would increase the sodium excretion in WKY rats; the impaired interaction might be involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension.


2010 ◽  
Vol 299 (1) ◽  
pp. F49-F54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Crambert ◽  
Agneta Sjöberg ◽  
Ann-Christine Eklöf ◽  
Fernando Ibarra ◽  
Ulla Holtbäck

Prolactin is a natriuretic hormone and acts by inhibiting the activity of renal tubular Na+-K+-ATPase activity. These effects require an intact renal dopamine system. Here, we have studied by which mechanism prolactin and dopamine interact in Sprague-Dawley rat renal tissue. Na+-K+-ATPase activity was measured as ouabain-sensitive ATP hydrolysis in microdissected renal proximal tubular segments. Intracellular signaling pathways were studied by a variety of different techniques, including Western blotting using phosphospecific antibodies, immunoprecipitation, and biotinylation assays. We found that dopamine and prolactin regulated Na+-K+-ATPase activity via similar signaling pathways, including protein kinase A, protein kinase C, and phosphoinositide 3-kinase activation. The cross talk between prolactin and dopamine 1-like receptors was explained by a heterologous recruitment of dopamine 1-like receptors to the plasma membrane in renal proximal tubular cells. Prolactin had no effect on Na+-K+-ATPase activity in spontaneously hypertensive rats, a rat strain with a blunted response to dopamine. These results further emphasize the central role of the renal dopamine system in the interactive regulation of renal tubular salt balance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1 (254)) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Heghine Kh. Gevorgyan ◽  
Anait V. Vassilian ◽  
Karen A. Trchounian

This research is focused on the investigation of specific growth rate changes of $E.~coli$ wild type and mutant strains with defect of Hyd, FDH enzymes and FhlA regulatory protein in the presence of $N,N'$-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) and external formate various concentration during co-fermentation of glucose, glycerol and formate at pHs $5.5-7.5.$ The highest value of SGR was observed at pH 7.5. It was revealed that SGR depends on external formate concentration at all pHs. DCCD inhibitory effect was shown mainly at pH 7.5 and partially at pH 6.5 and 5.5. In the case of the F0F1-ATPase inhibition FhlA compensatory effect on SGR was revealed.


2007 ◽  
Vol 292 (5) ◽  
pp. F1435-F1442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Kirchheimer ◽  
Carlos F. Mendez ◽  
Andrea Acquier ◽  
Susana Nowicki

Previous studies propose 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE), a major arachidonic acid metabolite of cytochrome P-450 (CYP), as a possible mediator of Na+-K+-ATPase inhibition by dopamine (DA). The aim of this study was to investigate the intracellular mechanisms involved in this effect and to elucidate the DA receptor associated with the 20-HETE pathway in the rat kidney. DA (10−5 M) inhibited Na+-K+-ATPase activity in microdissected tubular segments to 59.4 ± 3.8% of control activity. This response was suppressed by the CYP4A inhibitor 17-octadecynoic acid (10−6 M), which had no effect per se, thus confirming the participation of CYP arachidonic acid metabolites in DA-induced Na+-K+-ATPase inhibition. We next examined whether 20-HETE is involved in the signaling pathways triggered by either D1 or D2 receptors. Neither fenoldopam nor quinpirole (D1 and D2 agonists, respectively, both 10−5 M) modified Na+-K+-ATPase activity when tried alone. However, coincubation of a threshold concentration of 20-HETE (10−9 M) with fenoldopam resulted in a synergistic inhibition of Na+-K+-ATPase activity (66 ± 2% of control activity), while 20-HETE plus quinpirole had no effect. Furthermore, 20-HETE (10−9 M) synergized with forskolin (10−5 M) and with the diacylglycerol analog 1-oleoyl-2-acetoyl- sn-glycerol (OAG; 10−11 M; 62.0 ± 5.3 and 69.9 ± 2.0% of control activity, respectively), indicating a cooperative role of 20-HETE with the D1-triggered pathways. In line with these results, no additive effect was observed when OAG and 20-HETE were combined at concentrations which per se produced maximal inhibition (10−6 M). These results demonstrate that the inhibition of Na+-K+-ATPase activity by DA in the proximal tubule may be the result of the synergism between 20-HETE and the D1 signaling pathway.


2009 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. p55-p60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo R. Choi ◽  
Cecilia Medici ◽  
Mariela M. Gironacci ◽  
Alicia H. Correa ◽  
Belisario E. Fernández

1980 ◽  
Vol 186 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Mollinedo ◽  
V Larraga ◽  
F J Coll ◽  
E Muñoz

An energy-transducing adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase, EC 3.6.1.3) that contains an extra polypeptide (delta) as well as three intrinsic subunits (alpha, beta, gamma) was purified from Micrococcus lysodeikticus membranes. The apparent subunit stoichiometry of this soluble ATPase complex is alpha 3 beta 3 gamma delta. The functional role of the subunits was studied by correlating subunit sensitivity to trypsin and effect of antibodies raised against holo-ATPase and its alpha, beta and gamma subunits with changes in ATPase activity and ATPase rebinding to membranes. A form of the ATPase with the subunit proportions 1.67(alpha):3.00(beta:0.17(gamma) was isolated after trypsin treatment of purified ATPase. This form has more than twice the specific activity of native enzyme. Other forms with less relative proportion of alpha subunits and absence of gamma subunit are not active. Of the antisera to subunits, only anti-(beta-subunit) serum shows a slight inhibitory effect on ATPase activity, but its combination with either anti-(alpha-subunit) or anti-(gamma-subunit) serum increases the effect. The results suggest that beta subunit is required for full ATPase activity, although a minor proportion of alpha and perhaps gamma subunit(s) is also required, probably to impart an active conformation to the protein. The additional polypeptide not hitherto described in Micrococcus lysodeikticus ATPase had a molecular weight of 20 000 and was found to be involved in ATPase binding to membranes. This 20 000-dalton component can be equated with the delta subunit of other energy-transducing ATPases and its association with the (alpha, beta, gamma) M. lysodeikticus ATPase complex appears to be dependent on bivalent cations. The present results do not preclude the possibility that the gamma subunit also plays a role in ATPase binding, in which, however, the major subunits do not seem to play a role.


1987 ◽  
Vol 58 (02) ◽  
pp. 744-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
A R Saniabadi ◽  
G D O Lowe ◽  
J C Barbenel ◽  
C D Forbes

SummarySpontaneous platelet aggregation (SPA) was studied in human whole blood at 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 minutes after venepuncture. Using a whole blood platelet counter, SPA was quantified by measuring the fall in single platelet count upon rollermixing aliquots of citrated blood at 37° C. The extent of SPA increased with the time after venepuncture, with a correlation coefficient of 0.819. The inhibitory effect of dipyridamole (Dipy) on SPA was studied: (a) 10 μM at each time interval; (b) 0.5-100 μM at 3 and 30 minutes and (c) 15 μM in combination with 100 μM adenosine, 8 μM 2-chloroadenosine (2ClAd, an ADP receptor blocker) and 50 μM aspirin. There was a rapid decrease in the inhibitory effect of Dipy with the time after venepuncture; the correlation coefficient was -0.533. At all the concentrations studied, Dipy was more effective at 3 minutes than at 30 minutes after venepuncture. A combination of Dipy with adenosine, 2ClAd or aspirin was a more effective inhibitor of SPA than either drug alone. However, when 15 μM Dipy and 10 μM Ad were added together, the inhibitory effect of Dipy was not increased significantly, suggesting that Dipy inhibits platelet aggregation independent of Ad. The increase in SPA with the time after venepuncture was abolished when blood was taken directly into the anticoagulant containing 5 μM 2ClAd. It is suggested that ADP released from the red blood cells is responsible for the increased platelet aggregability with the time after venepuncture and makes a serious contribution to the artifacts of in vitro platelet function studies.


1995 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
pp. 723-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ettore C degli Uberti ◽  
Maria R Ambrosio ◽  
Marta Bondanelli ◽  
Giorgio Transforini ◽  
Alberto Valentini ◽  
...  

degli Uberti EC, Ambrosio MR, Bondanelli M, Trasforini G, Valentini A, Rossi R, Margutti A, Campo M. Effect of human galanin on the response of circulating catecholamines to hypoglycemia in man. Eur J Endocrinol 1995;133:723–8. ISSN 0804–4643 Human galanin (hGAL) is a neuropeptide with 30 amino acid residues that has been found in the peripheral and central nervous system, where it often co-exists with catecholamines. In order to clarify the possible role of hGAL in the regulation of sympathoadrenomedullary function, the effect of a 60 min infusion of hGAL (80 pmol·kg−1 · min−1) on plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine responses to insulin-induced hypoglycemia in nine healthy subjects was investigated. Human GAL administration significantly reduced both the release of basal norepinephrine and the response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia, whereas it attenuated the epinephrine response by 26%, with the hGAL-induced decrease in epinephrine release failing to achieve statistical significance. Human GAL significantly increased the heart rate in resting conditions and clearly exaggerated the heart rate response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia, whereas it had no effect on the blood pressure. We conclude that GAL receptor stimulation exerts an inhibitory effect on basal and insulin-induced hypoglycemia-stimulated release of norepinephrine. These findings provide further evidence that GAL may modulate sympathetic nerve activity in man but that it does not play an important role in the regulation of adrenal medullary function. Ettore C degli Uberti, Chair of Endocrinology, University of Ferrara, Via Savonarola 9, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy


Author(s):  
Md. Junaid ◽  
Yeasmin Akter ◽  
Syeda Samira Afrose ◽  
Mousumi Tania ◽  
Md. Asaduzzaman Khan

Background: AKT/PKB is an important enzyme with numerous biological functions, and its overexpression is related to the carcinogenesis. AKT stimulates different signaling pathways that are downstream of activated tyrosine kinases and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, hence functions as an important target for anti-cancer drugs. Objective: In this review article, we have interpreted the role of AKT signaling pathways in cancer and natural inhibitory effect of Thymoquinone (TQ) in AKT and its possible mechanism. Method: We have collected the updated information and data on AKT, their role in cancer and inhibitory effect of TQ in AKT signaling pathway from google scholar, PubMed, Web of Science, Elsevier, Scopus and many more. Results: There are many drugs already developed, which can target AKT, but very few among them have passed clinical trials. TQ is a natural compound, mainly found in black cumin, which has been found to have potential anti-cancer activities. TQ targets numerous signaling pathways, including AKT, in different cancers. In fact, many studies revealed that AKT is one of the major targets of TQ. The preclinical success of TQ suggests its clinical studies on cancer. Conclusion: This review article summarizes the role of AKT in carcinogenesis, its potent inhibitors in clinical trials, and how TQ acts as an inhibitor of AKT and TQ’s future as a cancer therapeutic drug.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Farhang ◽  
Laleh Sharifi ◽  
Mohammad Mehdi Soltan Dallal ◽  
Mona Moshiri ◽  
Zahra Norouzbabaie ◽  
...  

Background: The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) play crucial role in the controlling of inflammatory diseases. Due to the vast side effects of NSAIDs, its use is limited. G2013 or &amp;#945;-L-Guluronic Acid is a new NSAID with immunomodulatory features. Objectives: Considering the leading role of TLRs in inflammatory responses, in this study, we aimed to evaluate G2013 cytotoxicity and its effect on the expression of TLR2 and TLR4 molecules. Methods: HEK293-TLR2 and HEK293-TLR4 cells were cultured and seeded on 96-well cell plate, and MTT assay was performed for detecting the viability of the cells after treatment with different concentrations of G2013. HT29 cells were grown and treated with low and high doses of G2013. After total RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis, quantitative real-time PCR were performed to assess the TLR2 and TLR4 mRNA synthesis. Results: We found that concentrations of ≤125 &amp;#181;g/ml of G2013 had no apparent cytotoxicity effect on the HEK293-TLR2 and -TLR4 cells. Our results indicated that after G2013 treatment (5 &amp;#181;g/ml) in HT29 cells, TLR2 and TLR4 mRNA expression decreased significantly compared with the untreated control group (p=0.02 and p=0.001 respectively). Conclusion: The results of this study revealed that G2013 can down regulate the TLR2 and TLR4 gene expression and exerts its inhibitory effect. Our findings are parallel to our previous finding which showed G2013 ability to down regulate the signaling pathway of TLRs. However, further studies are needed to identify the molecular mechanism of G2013.<p&gt;


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