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Query: UMLS:C0085580 (essential hypertension)
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Prenatal factors, especially intrauterine growth retardation, have been shown to correlate with the risk of essential hypertension in adult life, but the mechanisms are unknown. An experimental model of prenatal programming of hypertension in the rat, induced by a maternal low-protein diet during pregnancy, was employed to study the role of renal Na reabsorption in the pathogenesis. The abundance of the apical Na transporter type III Na/H exchanger (NHE3), bumetanide-sensitive Na-K-2Cl cotransporter (BSC1), thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter (TSC), and the amiloride-sensitive epithelial Na channel (ENaC) was determined by semiquantitative immunoblotting in kidneys from the offspring at 4 wk of age, before hypertension became manifest. There were no significant differences between the experimental and control rats in the abundance of NHE3 or any of the ENaC subunits. In contrast, the quantity of BSC1 in the experimental group was increased to 302% of control (P < 0.001) and that of TSC to 157% of control (P < 0.05). Determination of specific mRNA levels by ELISA-linked RT-PCR revealed a significantly increased BSC1 mRNA at 1 day (P < 0.01), 4 wk (P < 0.01), and 8 wk (P < 0.001) of age, and a significantly increased TSC mRNA at 4 wk of age (P < 0.05) in the experimental group. The results suggest that prenatal programming of hypertension involves transcriptional upregulation of Na transport in thick ascending limb and distal convoluted tubule.
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PMID:Upregulation of renal BSC1 and TSC in prenatally programmed hypertension. 1206 Jun 3

1. The renal bumetanide-sensitive Na-K-2Cl cotransporter (BSC-1) is expressed only in the thick ascending limb and selectively traffics from intracellular vesicles (IVs) to apical plasma membranes (PMs), where BSC-1 regulates sodium reabsorption. We showed previously that in kidneys from adult spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR; model of essential hypertension) total protein expression of BSC-1 was higher compared with kidneys from normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. However, whether this change is associated with an increased trafficking of BSC-1 from IVs to PMs is unknown. The goal of the present study was to test the hypothesis that the increase in total renal BSC-1 protein expression in SHR is accompanied by an augmented distribution of BSC-1 from IVs to PMs. 2. To test the hypothesis, we obtained renal tissue from the inner stripe of the outer medulla (ISOM; enriched in thick ascending limbs) and isolated IVs and PMs from this tissue by differential centrifugation. Total BSC-1 protein expression in ISOM and BSC-1 protein expression in ISOM IVs and PMs were measured by semiquantitative western blotting in SHR and aged-matched WKY rats at different ages and stages of hypertension. 3. At 5 weeks of age, SHR were prehypertensive (mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) 97 mmHg). At this age, both the total abundance and cellular distribution of BSC-1 were similar in ISOM from SHR and WKY rats. 4. As SHR aged, their hypertension progressed (MABP 137 and 195 mmHg at 8 and 14 weeks of age, respectively). Associated with the increase in MABP was an increase in both steady state protein levels of ISOM BSC-1 and the distribution of ISOM BSC-1 to PMs (four- and sixfold increases at 8 and 14 weeks of age, respectively, compared with age-matched WKY rats; P < 0.001). 5. Using semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, BSC-1 mRNA was measured and was found not to differ between SHR and WKY rat ISOM at any age or level of MABP. 6. We conclude that as SHR transition from prehypertensive to established hypertension, there is a marked increase in the total expression of BSC-1 in ISOM that is not related to increases in steady state levels of BSC-1 mRNA and therefore unlikely to be due to changes in either the rate of BSC-1 gene transcription or the stability of BSC-1 mRNA. This suggests changes in either translational efficiency or BSC-1 protein stability in SHR. 7. We also conclude that the age/hypertension-related increase in BSC-1 protein levels in ISOM is accompanied by an equally marked increased trafficking of BSC-1 to PMs in SHR ISOM.
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PMID:Cellular distribution of the renal bumetanide-sensitive Na-K-2Cl cotransporter BSC-1 in the inner stripe of the outer medulla during the development of hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. 1797 73