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Large doses of angiotensin when infused intravenously or into the renal artery cause natriuresis. The initial effect is release of prostaglandin (probably PGE) and this leads to release of kallikrein. This latter step can be inhibited by noradrenaline. Activation of the kallikrein/kinin system is followed by release of a large molecular weight natriuretic hormone which is absent in glomerulonephritis. A small molecular weight hormone follows the large one and probably effects natriuresis by inhibition of renal Na/K ATPase. This inhibition is reversed by noradrenalint or renal nerve stimulation. Natriuresis is the result of a chain reaction and not a single specific natriuretic hormone.
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PMID:Stimulation of the renal kallikrein-linin system by vasoactive substances and its relationship to the excretion of salt and water. 35 37

To define the regulatory strategy for the transcriptional control of the kallikrein multigene family, we analyzed the expression of several kallikrein/SV40 T-antigen (TAg) fusion genes in transgenic mice and rats. Kallikrein family members are normally expressed at a high level in the submandibular gland and are expressed in a wide range of tissues that vary among individual family members. A total of 1.7 kb of proximal 5'-flanking DNA from the tissue kallikrein gene (rKlk1) was sufficient to confer much of the correct tissue-specific pattern on a TAg reporter gene. TAg mRNA was detectable in tissues that normally express rKlk1 and TAg-induced tumors arose in brain and pancreas. However, absolute levels of transgene mRNA were very low relative to the expression of the normal endogenous tissue kallikrein gene. In particular, expression in the salivary glands, normally very high for endogenous rKlk1, was either low or absent. An intact rKlk1 transgene with extensive flanking DNA (4.5 kb 5' and 4.7 kb 3') and complete intragenic (4 kb) sequences was expressed similarly to the fusion transgene, demonstrating that regulatory elements necessary for comprehensively correct expression are not contained within these additional gene regions. Two additional kallikrein/SV40 fusion transgenes were derived from other family members, one from the rKlk2 gene, which encodes tonin, and another from the rKlk8 gene, which encodes a prostate kallikrein. Whereas the endogenous rKlk2 and rKlk8 genes normally are expressed at high levels in rat salivary glands, they were not expressed in the salivary glands as transgenes. The results for these transgenes of three different family members indicate that control elements that direct the particular nonsalivary gland expression pattern characteristic of each family member may be present within the proximal 5'-flanking region of each gene, whereas regulatory sequences necessary for normal levels of expression in these tissues and for maximal salivary gland expression are not. We propose that the gene-associated regulatory sequences are complemented by a dominant control region that imposes salivary gland expression on the extended kallikrein family locus.
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PMID:Tissue-specific expression of kallikrein family transgenes in mice and rats. 160 58

Natriuretic hormone is a digoxin-like substance that inhibits Na-K-ATPase, membraneous sodium pump, leads to storage of sodium in the cells, increases their tone which plays a key role in the increase of peripheral resistance of the blood vessels and progression of hypertensive disease. Results indicate that the level of natriuretic hormone was increased at all stages of hypertensive disease, positively correlated with aldosterone and kallikrein and negatively--with the plasma renin activity that confirms its pressor action.
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PMID:[The role of the natriuretic hormone in neurohumoral regulation in hypertension]. 168 83

The mechanism of the Na+/K(+)-ATPase activation by trypsin (from bovine pancreas) and kallikrein (from human plasma) was investigated on enzyme preparations from different sources (beef heart and dog kidney) and at different degrees of purification (beef heart). Kallikrein was effective on both beef and dog enzymes, whereas trypsin stimulated only the beef-heart Na+/K(+)-ATPase. The extent of activation by the proteinases was inversely related to the degree of purification (maximal enzyme activation about 60 and 20% on the partially purified and the more purified enzymes, respectively). Enzyme activation was observed up to 0.5-0.6 microgram/ml of proteinase. At higher concentrations the activation decreased and was converted into inhibition at proteinase concentrations above 1.0 micrograms/ml. Na+/K(+)-ATPase stimulation was due to an increase in the Vmax of the enzyme reaction. Km for ATP remained unaffected. The activating effect was favoured by sodium and counteracted by potassium. Accordingly, Na(+)-ATPase activity was stimulated to a greater extent (up to 350%), whereas K(+)-dependent p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity proved to be insensitive to the actions of the proteinases. The Na+/K(+)-ATPase stimulation by both proteinases was antagonized by either ouabain or canrenone, two drugs that bind on the extracellular side of the Na+/K(+)-ATPase molecule. On the contrary, the enzyme inactivation observed at high proteinase concentrations was not counteracted by these two drugs. The stimulation of either Na+/K(+)- or Na(+)-ATPase activity was shown to be an irreversible effect without any significant protein degradation detectable by SDS gel electrophoresis. The results obtained suggest that proteinases exert their stimulatory effects by interacting preferentially with the E2 conformation of Na+/K(+)-ATPase at site(s) located on the extracellular moiety of the enzyme.
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PMID:Mechanism of Na+/K(+)-ATPase activation by trypsin and kallikrein. 216 11

Overall, there is agreement that the origins of hypertension have a genetic basis. The genetic factors interact with environmental factors that influence expression and intensity of the disorder. As summarized in Table 1, there is evidence from the literature to identify pathways for the development of hypertension in blacks. Organ pathology, characteristic of the clinical phenotypic hypertension, consists of increased peripheral vascular resistance and left ventricular hypertrophy, and, particularly in blacks, nephrosclerosis. In this scheme, an intermediate phenotype is a biochemical or endocrine marker of gene expression that participates in the regulation of blood pressure. Intermediate phenotypic characteristics of essential hypertension include sodium sensitivity, adrenergic activity, cation transport, and endocrine function including renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, kallikrein-kinin, and prostaglandin. Another intermediate phenotype to be included in this discussion is insulin resistance. These intermediate phenotypes of cell and subcellular function are regulated by candidate genes. Alternatively, an intermediate phenotype can be expressed in response to another intermediate phenotype. For example, sodium sensitivity could be mediated by the cation transport mechanism of Na,K-ATPase, or insulin resistance could be induced by an elevated level of adrenergic activity. Gene expression of the intermediate phenotype is also modulated by environmental factors such as dietary sodium, potassium, or calcium, and social stresses or patterns of physical activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Differences in blacks and whites with essential hypertension: biochemistry and endocrine. State of the art lecture. 219 Sep 20

Unknown factors in the seminal plasma of normal semen that affect the motility of spermatozoa have a positive effect on adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) enzyme activity. In an attempt to produce such an effect, spermine, spermidine and kallikrein were added to the incubation media in which spermatozoal ATPase enzyme activity was determined. These seminal substances increased the triple ATPase enzyme activity of spermatozoa from oligoasthenozoospermic men. We propose that the ATPase enzyme activity of spermatozoa may indicate sperm motility as a biochemical test.
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PMID:The effect of spermine, spermidine and kallikrein on the triple adenosine triphosphatase enzyme activity of spermatozoa in males with oligoasthenozoospermia. 252 16

Plasma from insulin-dependent diabetics shows an increased ability to specifically activate the (Na-K)ATPase from different sources. Several protease inhibitors like phenyl methyl sulfonyl fluoride, trypsin inhibitor, antithrombin III and aprotinin, produced a significant dose-dependent inhibition of the stimulatory effect produced by a 1/100 final dilution of plasma on the beef heart (Na-K)ATPase activity. Serine proteases employed at scalar concentrations in the ATPase medium gave a dose-dependent stimulation of the enzyme activity as did diabetic plasma. The maximum percent stimulation of the (Na-K)ATPase activity (about 60%) was reached by 0.56 microgram/ml of thrombin, 0.50 microgram/ml of kallikrein and 0.55 microgram/ml of trypsin. The protease-induced ATPase stimulation was significantly reduced by antithrombin III, trypsin inhibitor and by aprotinin. A partial purification of the activating plasma factor was obtained by eluting plasma on a heparin-Sepharose column. Two (Na-K)ATPase stimulating fractions were found, which eluted with 1.0 and 3.0 mol/l NaCl, respectively. Half-maximal stimulation of the enzyme occurred with 3.4 micrograms/ml proteins of fraction 1.0 mol/l and with 45 ng/ml proteins of fraction 3.0 mol/l, this last representing the most purified plasma fraction (about 8890-fold purification). The proteolytic activity of both plasma and purified plasma fractions was tested on Tos-Arg-OMe substrate which was hydrolyzed to a much higher degree by the most purified plasma fraction. Like the (Na-K)ATPase stimulation, the esterolytic activity was inhibited by protease inhibitors, the most effective to this regard being antithrombin.
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PMID:Identification and partial purification of a (Na-K)ATPase stimulating serine protease from plasma of insulin-dependent diabetics. 283 59

Interpopulation studies support the hypothesis of a causal relationship between sodium consumption and arterial hypertension. However, although this association has been contradicted by intrapopulation studies, the correlation between sodium and hypertension appears to be genetically determined, as there are both sodium-sensitive and sodium-resistant individuals. Sodium is essential for the maintenance of extracellular and plasma volume equilibrium. It is controlled metabolically by the interaction of several biological systems such as the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, the sympathetic nervous system and the kallikrein-kinin and prostaglandin systems. Thus, sodium has a definite role in the mechanism involved in the pathophysiology of the predominantly volume-dependent forms of arterial hypertension. Recently, different structural substances with natriuretic effects have been identified. Natriuretic hormone is a non-peptide substance which inhibits the Na,K-ATPase in response to extracellular volume increase. This hormone acts on the renal tubular cells reducing sodium reabsorption, and at an arteriolar level elevating peripheral resistance by increasing smooth muscle tension. Mammalian atria contain various precursors of biologically active peptides, with potent natriuretic and diuretic effects. They are released in response to volume loading and atrial stretch. Although some data suggest an important role for these natriuretic substances in fluid volume and blood pressure control, their place in physiology and in abnormal clinical states should be more definitively clarified in the next few years.
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PMID:Sodium and hypertension. Still a controversy in 1986. 294 88

Human urine contains a small molecular weight natriuretic substance and similar material isolated from the kidney inhibits Na/K ATPase. Such action on smooth muscle in blood vessels would cause contraction. Human urinary natriuretic material caused contraction of the smooth muscle in the rat anococcygeus muscle and this activity correlated with its natriuretic activity. Known vasoactive substances could not explain the activity of the natriuretic factor when tested on the anococcygeus muscle. The best correlation with blood pressure of the patient was with the log of the ratio of natriuretic activity divided by the kallikrein excretion. A normotensive woman with severe renal failure had very high kallikrein excretion as well as increased natriuretic activity and her data fitted the same correlation as the hypertensives' data.
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PMID:Natriuretic and smooth muscle responses to human urinary natriuretic hormone in rats: relation to blood pressure and kallikrein excretion in patients. 299 Jul 72

Human urine contains a small molecular weight natriuretic substance and similar material isolated from the kidney inhibits Na/K ATPase. Such action on blood vessels would cause contraction. Human urinary natriuretic material isolated from a Sephadex G-25 column contracted smooth muscle in the rat anococcygeus muscle. Known vasoactive substances could not explain the activity of the natriuretic fraction on the anococcygeus muscle. In subsequent studies the natriuretic fraction from the Sephadex G-25 column was run on a Sephadex G-10 column and natriuretic activity was found before the sodium was eluted. The same fractions inhibited Na/K ATPase but did not cause contraction of the anococcygeus muscle. The fractions which did cause contraction of the anococcygeus muscle were eluted long after the salts and these fractions did not inhibit Na/K ATPase and were not natriuretic. The postulated defect in sodium excretion in hypertensive patients might be related to their low kallikrein excretion. Since ANP stimulates increased kallikrein release in rats and does not inhibit Na/K ATPase, it is suggested that the natriuretic pathway via inhibition of renal Na/K ATPase is independent in the kidney of the kallikrein/kinin natriuretic pathway.
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PMID:Natriuretic and smooth muscle contracting activities isolated from human urine. 359 3


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