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Previously we reported that immunoreactive angiotensin II (Ang II) release from isolated perfused rat mesenteric arteries was mediated by beta-adrenergic receptor activation. However, the precise mechanism of regulation of vascular renin-angiotensin is not completely understood. In this study, we examined the effect of indomethacin and meclofenamate on immunoreactive angiotensin I (Ang I) and immunoreactive Ang II release from perfused rat hind leg vasculature to delineate the possible relevance of prostaglandins to the vascular renin-angiotensin system in vitro. We also examined the effects of isoproterenol and propranolol on the immunoreactive Ang I and II release. Isolated rat hind legs were perfused with Krebs-Ringer solution, and immunoreactive Ang I and II released into the perfusate were measured directly by using a Sep-Pak C18 cartridge connected to the perfusion system. Indomethacin and meclofenamate (10(-8) to 2 X 10(-6) M) added to the perfusion medium suppressed immunoreactive Ang I and II release to similar extents in a dose-dependent manner (p less than 0.001); the maximal percent inhibition of immunoreactive Ang II release evoked by these inhibitors (2 X 10(-6) M) was 60 +/- 6% (p less than 0.001) for indomethacin and 50 +/- 4% (p less than 0.001) for meclofenamate. Isoproterenol (10(-6) M) failed to cause a change in the release of both peptides, but propranolol (10(-6) M) slightly decreased the release of immunoreactive Ang I and II by 28 +/- 4% (p less than 0.001) and 32 +/- 4% (p less than 0.001), respectively. There was a highly significant positive correlation between the released amount of immunoreactive Ang I and that of immunoreactive Ang II altered by indomethacin (r = 0.91), meclofenamate (r = 0.94), or propranolol administration (r = 0.90). These results suggest that the renin-angiotensin in the hind legs is modulated by prostaglandins and that a difference exists in the beta-adrenergic receptor-mediated release of Ang II among diverse vascular beds.
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PMID:Suppression of angiotensin II release by prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors in hind legs. 284 Mar 95

Indomethacin attenuates the antihypertensive effect of both thiazide diuretics and beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs. The mechanisms of these interactions are poorly understood but sodium and water retention, suppression of plasma renin activity, alterations in adrenoceptor sensitivity and impaired synthesis of vasodilator prostaglandins may all contribute to this effect. Other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may share this property of indomethacin but sulindac, which is a selective inhibitor of extrarenal prostaglandin synthesis, appears not to. This may have important clinical and theoretical implications. Clinicians must beware of this potential interaction in any patient receiving treatment for hypertension. NSAIDs may also inhibit the natriuretic response to diuretics with resultant adverse effects in patients with heart failure and other forms of oedema. NSAIDs may also have adverse nephrotoxic effects which may be exacerbated by diuretic therapy.
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PMID:Interactions of NSAIDs with diuretics and beta-blockers mechanisms and clinical implications. 286 24

The immature kidney may be adversely affected by a variety of vasoactive or diuretic drugs, either administered to the mother during pregnancy, or to the neonate. Inhibitors of the angiotensin-converting enzyme administered to the hypertensive pregnant woman can severely and sometimes definitely impair renal function in the fetus, leading to postnatal anuria. Pathogenesis involves interference with the renin-angiotensin system and the prostaglandins. Beta-adrenergic agents administered during labor depress glomerular filtration rate transiently. Tolazoline, an alpha-adrenergic blocking agent useful in the treatment of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neonate induces intense renal vasoconstriction with consequent hypoperfusion. Indomethacin, a prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor used for the pharmacological closure of a patent ductus arteriosus, also increases renal vascular resistance, and decreases urine output. Furosemide, the drug most often used in oliguric neonates, may also adversely affect the newborn infant. Its use has been associated with an increase in the incidence of patent ductus arteriosus, hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis and secondary hyperparathyroidism. These observations demonstrate that the proper use of drugs requires that the therapeutic endpoint be clearly defined and the predictable side effects be anticipated.
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PMID:Adverse effects of drugs on the immature kidney. 290 Dec 76

We studied the effect of alpha-human natriuretic peptide (ANP, 100 micrograms iv) on renal sodium handling in eight healthy subjects before and after 7 days of indomethacin (50 mg 3 times a day). Sodium intake was 100 mmol/day. Prior to indomethacin, ANP caused a fourfold rise in sodium excretion over the first 20 min and a threefold rise in fractional sodium excretion. The clearance studies, performed during maximal water diuresis, showed increased fractional free water clearance and lithium clearance. Indomethacin caused marked sodium retention. Complete escape did not occur until the sixth day, when cumulative balance was 244 mmol (range 176-337). By this time renin and aldosterone were suppressed and fractional lithium and free water clearance reduced. The natriuretic effect of ANP was not attenuated, and the fractional excretion of sodium and chloride rose even more than without indomethacin. The reduction in lithium and free water clearance under indomethacin tended to be reversed by ANP. These data suggest that the natriuretic effect of ANP is not mediated by or dependent on renal prostaglandins. Indomethacin and ANP appear to have opposite effects on sodium excretion, maximal free water clearance, and lithium clearance.
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PMID:Effects of indomethacin on renal response to atrial natriuretic peptide. 296 Dec 74

Low-dose angiotensin II (ANG II) infusion raised plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels only when endogenous renin-angiotensin levels were low, as in aldosterone-producing adenoma. When plasma renin activity (PRA) levels rose tenfold following removal of the tumour, low-dose ANG II infusion no longer stimulated ANP, but fivefold higher doses did. Indomethacin lowered both PRA and ANP in Bartter's syndrome and in normal subjects. The effect of indomethacin on ANP is probably not direct, since it did not lower ANP in aldosterone-producing adenoma. Neither did it lower PRA in aldosterone-producing adenoma, and in most studies ANP and PRA moved in parallel, consistent with positive regulation of ANP by ANG II. When ANG II infusion stimulated ANP, it also raised blood pressure, which could therefore be mediating the effects of ANG II on ANP. However, both PRA and ANP are high in Bartter's syndrome, while blood pressure is normal or low, and indomethacin lowers PRA and ANP in Bartter's syndrome and in normal subjects without lowering the blood pressure. The relative importance of regulatory factors such as central blood volume/atrial pressure and ANG II level probably varies in different situations. In aldosterone-producing adenoma, a high central blood volume appears to over-ride the effect of a low ANG II level. In Bartter's syndrome a high ANG II level appears to over-ride the effect of low central blood volume.
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PMID:Atrial natriuretic peptide levels during angiotensin infusion and indomethacin administration are consistent with angiotensin-mediated regulation in man. 296 35

1. Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels were positively correlated with plasma renin activity (PRA) levels, when blood volume and blood pressure (BP) were not raised in normal subjects (NLS) or patients with postoperative aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA), Bartter's syndrome (BS), Addison's disease, anorexia nervosa, diuretic abuse or salt-losing congenital adrenal hyperplasia. 2. Angiotensin II infusion raised ANP levels in NLS, and patients with BS, pre- and postoperative APA, only when BP rose, suggesting that this effect might be mediated by the rise in BP. 3. Captopril lowered aldosterone and ANP levels in renal artery stenosis, but falling BP levels could mediate this effect. Captopril lowered aldosterone and BP in BS, but did not lower ANP, perhaps because angiotensin remained elevated. 4. Indomethacin lowered ANP when PRA was initially normal or raised (NLS and BS), but not when PRA was suppressed (APA). This effect could not be mediated by BP, which rose, but could be mediated by renin-angiotensin, which fell. 5. Factors other than central blood volume and atrial stretch may modulate ANP levels. Plasma angiotensin II may be such a factor, and may exert an important influence at high levels, especially when blood volume is low.
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PMID:Altering angiotensin levels by administration of captopril or indomethacin, or by angiotensin infusion, contributes to an understanding of atrial natriuretic peptide regulation in man. 297 45

Bartter's syndrome (B.S) is often difficult to distinguish from pseudo-Bartter's syndrome (pseudo-B.S), a condition which may be caused by "loop" diuretics abuse. Although our patient firmly denied ingestion of diuretics or laxatives, all screening of urine samples gave consistently positive results for furosemide, even during hospitalization. A 25-year-old married woman with persistent hypokalemia had many characteristics of B.S, including hypokalemic hypochloremic alkalosis, hyperactivity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, normotension, insensitivity to the pressor effect of angiotensin II (A.II), increased urinary excretion of prostaglandin E2 and kallikrein, and marked reduction of distal fractional reabsorption of chloride in Henle's loop, as estimated by CH2O/CH2O+C.Cl, under conditions of hypotonic saline diuresis. Furthermore, hypotension occurred with [1-Sar, 8-Ile] A.II and with the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (Captopril). Renal biopsy revealed juxtaglomerular hyperplasia. A tentative diagnosis of B.S was made. Indomethacin (IDM), an inhibitor of prostaglandin synthesis was prescribed and the pressor response to A.II improved. Impaired fractional chloride reabsorption was also improved significantly under IDM, but the value was low compared to the normal. The value for basal plasma human atrial natriuretic polypeptide (hANP) was slightly above the normal ranges and was suppressed by IDM. We conclude that manifestations B.S in this patient may have been fostered significantly by the long-term surreptitious use of furosemide, taken to lose weight. The analysis of urine for detection of diuretics was only finding distinguishing her clinical state from "true" B.S and leading to a final diagnosis. Pathophysiologic relationships between B.S and pseudo-B.S due to furosemide are discussed.
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PMID:[Pseudo-Bartter's syndrome induced by surreptitious ingestion of furosemide to lose weight: a case report and possible pathophysiology]. 302 52

Recent reports suggest that prostaglandins play an important role in the beta-adrenergic receptor mechanism of renin release. However, the site of the action of prostaglandins has not yet been clarified. Superfusion of rabbit renal cortical slices was used to evaluate the beta-adrenergic receptor mechanism of renin release. Renin release was stimulated by isoproterenol, prostaglandin E2, and dibutyryl cyclic AMP. Renin release stimulated by isoproterenol was inhibited by propranolol, whereas renin release stimulated by prostaglandin E2 was not inhibited by propranolol. Isoproterenol stimulated prostaglandin E2 release as well as renin release, and indomethacin inhibited these effects of isoproterenol. Propranolol inhibited prostaglandin E2 release stimulated by isoproterenol. On the other hand, indomethacin did not affect renin release stimulated by prostaglandin E2 release. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP did not stimulate prostaglandin E2 release. Indomethacin did not affect renin release stimulated by dibutyryl cyclic AMP, however, it suppressed prostaglandin E2 release during the superfusion with dibutyryl cyclic AMP. Finally, isoproterenol and prostaglandin E2 stimulated cyclic AMP release. These data suggest that prostaglandins play an important role in the beta-adrenergic receptor mechanism of renin release and the site of the action of prostaglandins is between the beta-adrenergic receptor and cyclic AMP.
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PMID:The mechanism of the control of renin release by beta-adrenergic receptors. 303 46

We evaluated the influence of indomethacin on the pharmacological actions of Enalapril in 9 uncomplicated essential hypertensives. While on chronic treatment with Enalapril, these patients randomly received indomethacin (50 mg bid) or a corresponding placebo for 1 week and the opposite treatment after a 2 week interval. Indomethacin, which decreased serum thromboxane B2 and urinary 6-keto prostaglandin-F1 alpha, reduced the plasma renin activity (PRA) increased by Enalapril. Indomethacin did not modify serum ACE, whose activity had been reduced by the ACE inhibitor. Mean blood pressure (MBP) values, which were significantly and to a similar extent reduced by Enalapril at the beginning of the cross-over, after placebo addition and at the end of the two week interval, were significantly increased by indomethacin, despite being still significantly lower than baseline values. These data show that systemic and renal prostaglandin (PG) synthesis inhibition induced by indomethacin can blunt the antihypertensive effect of chronic Enalapril treatment in patients with essential hypertension.
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PMID:Indomethacin reduces the antihypertensive action of enalapril. 303 18

To study the macula densa mechanism for renin release, both the macula densa and the haemodynamic mechanisms were activated in anaesthetized dogs with denervated kidneys, either by renal arterial constriction to a renal arterial pressure (RAP) of 52 +/- 2 mmHg or by ureteral occlusion to a ureteral pressure of 95-105 mmHg, 20-25 mmHg below RAP. Renal arterial constriction increased renin release from 0.3 +/- 0.2 to 16 +/- 4 micrograms AI min-1. At low RAP, renin release was subsequently reduced to 7 +/- 3 micrograms AI min-1 when sodium excretion was raised far above control values by plasma volume expansion and acetazolamide infusion. Ethacrynic acid (3 mg kg-1 body wt.) restored renin release to pre-expansion values, and a large dose (25 mg kg-1 body wt.) prevented renin release from falling even after unclamping the artery. During ureteral occlusion with stopped glomerular filtration, plasma volume expansion, acetazolamide and ethacrynic acid infusion did not alter renin release. On the other hand, beta-adrenergic stimulation by isoproterenol raised renin release equally (by 30-40 micrograms AI min-1) before and after plasma volume expansion, during both renal arterial constriction and ureteral occlusion. Indomethacin (10 mg kg-1 body wt.) abolished renin release induced by ethacrynic acid infusion and ureteral occlusion. We conclude that the macula densa mechanism for renin release is inactivated by high NaCl reabsorption during plasma volume expansion and acetazolamide infusion, reactivated by inhibition of NaCl reabsorption with ethacrynic acid and completely inhibited by indomethacin. The degree of activation does not influence the renin release induced by beta-adrenergic stimulation.
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PMID:Properties of the macula densa mechanism for renin release in the dog. 306 14


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