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A compound containing cyclostatine ES-6864 (N-[(2R)-3-morpholinocarbonyl-2-(1-naphthylmethyl)propionyl]-(4-th iazolyl)- L-alanyl-cyclostatine-(2-morpholinoethyl)amide) was found to be a competitive inhibitor of human renin with an inhibitory constant (Ki) value of 7.3 x 10(-9) M. The compound was also potent against monkey renin but was less effective against renins from pig, goat, dog, rabbit and rat. ES-6864 did not inhibit cathepsin D, pepsin, urinary kallikrein, angiotensin converting enzyme, trypsin and chymotrypsin at a concentration of 10(-5) M. ES-6864 also inhibited the tissue renin-like activity from dog tissues with IC50 values of 10(-7)-10(-8) M in vitro. Oral administration of ES-6864 at 30 mg/kg to conscious, sodium-depleted marmosets produced a significant blood pressure reduction and a significant inhibition of plasma renin activity, which persisted for 6 hours. Plasma concentration of ES-6864 reached a maximum of 1.2 micrograms/ml at 1 hour after an oral administration. Oral administration of ES-6864 to hog renin-infused rats produced dose-related decreases in blood pressure. The results demonstrate that ES-6864 is an orally active renin inhibitor with high potency and specificity for human renin. Thus, ES-6864 is a candidate compound for development of renin inhibitors that can be used clinically.
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PMID:[In vitro and in vivo inhibition of renin by a thiazolylalanyl cyclostatine derivative]. 251 1

1. The acute effects of intravenous frusemide (30 mg) on prostaglandin dependent renal haemodynamics, urinary prostaglandin excretion, urinary dopamine excretion and electrolyte excretion were studied in six salt replete healthy volunteers with and without pretreatment with the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, ramipril (5 mg) and compared with the effects of ramipril alone in order to clarify the role of the renin-angiotensin system in these responses. 2. Frusemide increased natriuresis (UNaV), kaliuresis (UKV), inulin clearance and plasma renin activity (PRA) and ramipril pretreatment significantly enhanced these effects suggesting that the acute generation of angiotensin II (AII) may attenuate these actions of intravenous frusemide. 3. Frusemide increased para-aminohippurate (PAH) clearance, osmolar clearance and urine flow but did not change filtration fraction or urinary kallikrein excretion. Pretreatment with ramipril did not affect these responses. 4. Frusemide increased the excretion of urinary PGE2 and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha. Ramipril pretreatment did not suppress this rise in prostaglandin excretion. Since the frusemide induced prostaglandin dependent renal haemodynamic changes were also not suppressed with ACE inhibition, this suggests that in salt-replete volunteers AII does not significantly modulate renal prostaglandin production after frusemide. 5. Urinary free dopamine excretion increased with frusemide alone. With ramipril pretreatment this rise showed a tendency to increase. AII may therefore inhibit the rise in urinary dopamine excretion after frusemide. However this requires further study.
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PMID:Frusemide, ACE inhibition, renal dopamine and prostaglandins: acute interactions in normal man. 253 21

In order to clarify the significance of NEP in human renal kallikrein-kinin system, an assay system was developed for the simultaneous determination of kininase I, II and NEP activities in human. Each kininase activity was determined by measuring the hydrolysis of bradykinin in the presence of specific inhibitors of kininase I (2-mercaptomethyl-3-guanidinoethylthiopropanoic acid), kininase II (captopril) and NEP (phosphoramidon) in 8 normal subjects. The effects of the different assay buffers on kininase activities were also investigated by using a phosphate buffer. Total kininase, kininase I, II and NEP activities were 499 +/- 65 ng/min/ml (mean +/- S.E.), 55 +/- 8, 141 +/- 21 and 299 +/- 42, respectively in our method using a tris buffer, while a phosphate buffer brought about activities of 358 +/- 43, 45 +/- 5, 156 +/- 21 and 135 +/- 25 ng/min/ml. The relative contributions of kininase I, II and NEP to total kininase activity were 11, 29 and 59% in our assay system, while they were 13, 44 and 35% when a phosphate buffer was used. From these results it was suggested that 1) phosphate may inhibit urinary NEP activity, so that a tris buffer should be used as the incubation buffer, 2) NEP is the major component of human urinary kininases, and 3) NEP may play an important role in the renal kallikrein-kinin system.
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PMID:A sensitive method for differential determination of kininase I, II and neutral endopeptidase (NEP) in human urine. 255 8

In healthy volunteers the acute effect of furosemide (40 mg i.v.) and hydrochlorothiazide (100 mg p.o.) on diuresis, natriuresis and renal kallikrein and kinin excretion was investigated. Furosemide stimulated markedly diuresis and natriuresis as well as urinary kallikrein and kinin excretion. Pretreatment by captopril (C) reduced the diuretic and natriuretic effect of furosemide significantly probably due to a diminished (about 50%) proximal-tubular secretion of furosemide. Captopril did not alter significantly the furosemide induced changes in urinary kallikrein and kinin excretion. After captopril there was a clear dissociation between aldosterone, which was diminished by captopril continuously, and renal kallikrein and kinins, which were still stimulated by furosemide. These results suggest that renal kallikrein-kinin system is stimulated by furosemide directly and independently of aldosterone secretion. Other ACE-inhibitors like ramipril (5 mg) or enalapril (20 mg) did not influence the stimulatory effects of furosemide on diuresis or kallikrein-kinin excretion. Ramipril at a dose of 10 mg, however, enhanced the initial diuretic effect of furosemide by increased furosemide secretion and increased relative sodium excretion. Hydrochlorothiazide induced a prolonged diuresis which was not changed by either captopril or ramipril. Urinary kallikrein excretion was not stimulated by hydrochlorothiazide. Our results show an important drug interference between captopril and furosemide, which is independent of ACE-inhibition and probably only due to an interference in proximal-tubular secretion of both drugs. Between captopril and hydrochlorothiazide no such interaction could be observed.
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PMID:Interference of different ACE-inhibitors with the diuretic action of furosemide and hydrochlorothiazide. 258 18

Injection of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) induces marked diuresis, natriuresis and less marked blood pressure reduction. These effects are similar to those of renal kallikrein-kinin system (rKKS). In this study we investigated the influence of ANP on rKKS of rats. ANP was injected intravenously in male normotensive (WKy) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRsp) as a bolus of 3.5 micrograms atriopeptin III. ANP induced, in both groups of rats, a marked increase in diuresis and natriuresis, while blood pressure decreased significantly. Renal plasma flow and urinary excretion of potassium increased only a little. The observed changes were similar in both strains of rats and there was no statistically significant difference except the lower potassium stimulation in the SHRsp than in the WKy (p less than 0.05). In regard to the basal activity of the rKKS there was a significant difference between the two strains of rats. The activity of renal kallikrein in urine and of kininase II in plasma was reduced in the SHRsp about 50%, while renal kinin excretion in urine was markedly enhanced in these rats, if compared to the WKy controls. In both groups of rats renal kallikrein and kinin excretion was stimulated by ANP for a short time and, simultaneously, total kininogen in plasma decreased after the injection of ANP. The increment of renal kallikrein excretion in urine was much less marked in the SHRsp than in the WKy rats. The reduced kallikrein stimulation was compensated by the reduced kinin degradation by kininase II in these rats.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Effect of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on the renal kallikrein-kinin system in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats]. 284 16

In a study using a stop-flow technique in dog kidney, the existence of kallikrein and kinin was recognized in distal tubules. The presence of kininase I was seen in both distal and proximal tubules, and also partly in the distal tubules. The presence of kininase II in the distal tubules was again confirmed by pretreatment with SQ14225. No evidence of kinin formation, however, was obtained in the proximal nephrons in stop-flow method. From these results, it was suggested that kininase I and II localized in proximal tubules may destroy the kinin filtered from glomeruli at the proximal level, while kallikrein and kininogen and also kininase I and II in the distal tubules may regulate the activity of the renal kallikrein-kinin system in the distal nephrons.
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PMID:Localization of renal kallikrein-kinin system components in the kidney. 301 61

To further clarify the role of the renal kallikrein-kinin system in essential hypertension, a sensitive and simple method for the determination of both human urinary kininase I and kininase II was established, and the system components were determined in patients. In the measurement of kininase activity, desalted urine samples were incubated with synthetic bradykinin, and the reaction was terminated with kininase inhibitors, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid and phenanthroline. Thus, kininase activity was determined as the kinin-destroying capacity. Moreover, the specific inhibitor for kininase II, SQ14225, was applied for the separation of kininase I and kininase II activities. Daily urinary excretions of total kininase and kininase I activities were significantly higher in essential hypertensive patients than those in normotensive subjects, whereas no difference was observed in kininase II activity. As reported previously, daily excretions of urinary kallikrein and kinin simultaneously determined in these patients were significantly lower than excretions in normotensive subjects. From these results, it was suggested that not only decreased renal kallikrein, but also increased kininase activity, may play an important role in the suppression of the renal kallikrein-kinin system through the reduction of active kinin level in essential hypertension.
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PMID:Urinary excretions of kininase I and kininase II activities in essential hypertension. A sensitive and simple method for its kinin-destroying capacity. 301 73

In order to investigate the role of the renal kallikrein-kinin (K-K) system in normal (NRH) and low renin (LRH) subgroups of essential hypertension (EHT), daily urinary excretions of renal K-K system components including kallikrein (KAL), total KAL, pre-KAL, kinin (KIN) and kininase (total, I and II), were measured in 21 normotensives (NT) and 45 patients with EHT (NRH: 29, LRH: 16). Urinary KAL and KIN quantities, KAL activity, total and pre-KAL, and kininase (total, I and II) were measured by direct RIA, kininogenase assay, direct RIA of KAL after trypsin treatment, and KIN destroying capacity, respectively. The daily excretions of KAL quantity and activity, total and pre-KAL, and KIN were significantly lower in EHT than in NT. That of total kininase and kininase I were significantly higher in EHT than in NT while no significant difference was found in kininase I between EHT and NT. In comparing NRH and LRH, the urinary KAL activity and KIN were lower in LRH than in NRH, and kininase I was higher in LRH than in NRH. No significant difference, however, was found in total and pre-KAL, KAL quantity and kininase II between NRH and LRH. The ratio of KAL quantity/total KAL which reflects the conversion rate from pre-KAL in the kidney, did not show any significant difference among NT, NRH and LRH.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Comprehensive studies on the renal kallikrein-kinin system in essential hypertension. 302 78

Effects of condensed tannins isolated from Rhei Rhizoma on the activities of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and various proteases were examined in vitro. Among the various condensed tannins tested, procyanidin B-5 3,3'-di-O-gallate and procyanidin C-1 3,3',3"-tri-O-gallate strongly inhibited the activity of ACE. The concentration of procyanidin B-5 3,3'-di-O-gallate required for 50% inhibition of ACE was 1.3 X 10(-6) M. The inhibition of ACE by condensed tannins was reversible and non-competitive, according to dialysis and to Dixon plots. However, over one hundred times the concentration was required to inhibit activities of other proteases such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, leucine aminopeptidase, carboxypeptidase A and urinary kallikrein. These results suggest that the inhibitory effects of condensed tannins on the activities of ACE are specific.
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PMID:Inhibitory effects of condensed tannins on angiotensin converting enzyme. 303 68

N,N-Dimethylcarbamoylmethyl-4-(4-guanidino-benzoyloxy)phenylacetat e methanesulfonate (camostat mesilate) is reported to be an effective inhibitor of plasma kallikrein. It was shown in vitro to inhibit not only plasma kallikrein, but also renal kallikrein and plasma kininase II. These inhibitory activities, however, were very weak. The inhibition of plasma kallikrein in human plasma was limited in time, since a rapid reactivation of plasma kallikrein was noticed when samples were incubated at room temperature. In order to establish whether camostat mesilate was able to inhibit plasma kallikrein, kininase II and renal kallikrein also in vivo the inhibitory activity of camostat mesilate on these enzymes was studied in 5 healthy volunteers. After an oral intake of a single dose of 600 mg of camostat mesilate, plasma kallikrein was inhibited significantly, while kininase II in plasma was unaffected. Renal kallikrein activity determined by urinary excretion of active kallikrein remained unchanged after camostat mesilate intake. Thus, the results demonstrate that camostat mesilate in vivo inhibits only plasma kallikrein and has no effect on the activity of kininase II or renal kallikrein.
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PMID:In vivo effects of camostat mesilate on plasma kallikrein, plasma kininase II and renal kallikrein of man. 304 18


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