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To determine the effects of acute blood gas derangements on renal water and solute excretion and vasopressin secretion, six unanesthetized mongrel dogs were studied during 1) combined acute hypoxemia and hypercapnic acidosis [arterial O2 partial pressure (PaO2) 36 +/- 1 Torr, arterial CO2 partial pressure (PaCO2) 54 +/- 2 Torr, pH 7.18 +/- 0.01], 2) acute hypoxemia (PaO2 33 +/- 2 Torr, PaCO2 33 +/- 1 Torr, pH 7.34 +/- 0.01), and 3) acute hypercapnic acidosis (PaO2 83 +/- 3 Torr, PaCO2 53 +/- 1 Torr, pH 7.19 +/- 0.02). Combined acute hypoxemia and hypercapnic acidosis increased (P less than 0.05) mean arterial pressure, but renal hemodynamic function deteriorated with decreased (P less than 0.05) glomerular filtration rate and increased (P less than 0.05) renal vascular resistance. Moreover free water clearance became more negative (P less than 0.05) and urine osmolality increased (P less than 0.05). During acute hypoxemia or acute hypercapnic acidosis alone, mean arterial pressure and renal hemodynamic function were unchanged but free water clearance became more negative (P less than 0.05). During acute hypoxemia, urine osmolality increased (P less than 0.05) comparably with values observed during combined acute hypoxemia and hypercapnic acidosis. Plasma vasopressin concentrations increased profoundly (P less than 0.05) during combined hypoxemia and hypercapnic acidosis and during acute hypoxemia alone and were significantly elevated (P less than 0.05) above the increased plasma vasopressin concentrations observed during acute hypercapnic acidosis. We conclude that acute hypoxemia and hypercapnic acidosis result in impairment of renal water excretion, probably mediated through vasopressin secretion.
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PMID:Antidiuresis and vasopressin release with hypoxemia and hypercapnia in conscious dogs. 674 23

The aim of the present study was to determine the magnitude and direction of the shift of body fluids during water immersion of humans to the neck. Five healthy male subjects were studied lying in air for 1.5 h, sitting in 34 degrees C water to the neck for 1 h, and again lying in air for 1.5 h in two sets of experiments. For the first set, vasopressin (0.75 IU, sc) was injected before immersion. Blood and urine samples were drawn every 30 min in air and every 20 min in water. Urinary sodium, potassium, and osmolal clearances were significantly increased during immersion. When the mean maximum change during immersion was calculated for five subjects hematocrit fell by 1.1 U, plasma concentrations of sodium by 3.9 meq/l, chloride by 3.5 meq/l, potassium by 0.2 meq/l, osmolality by 7.9 mosmol/kg H2O, and proteins by 0.25 g/100 ml, whereas total plasma CO2 content increased by 1.33 mmol/l, threonine by 11.6%, proline by 9.0%, methionine by 14.0%, and alanine by 29%. Plasma volume increased 6.1%, and red blood cell volume calculated from hematocrit and hemoglobin increased 3.5%. In the second set of immersion experiments, without vasopressin injection, interstitial fluid pressures were measured with a cotton wick in PE-50 tubing inserted subcutaneously. A mean interstitial fluid pressure of -0.5 cmH2O was observed when the subjects were lying in air. Interstitial fluid pressure had started to decrease by 20 min of immersion, with a maximum decrease during immersion averaging 2.10 cmH2O. We conclude that hyposmotic fluid is mobilized into the blood from interstitial and other extravascular spaces during immersion.
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PMID:Osmoregulation and interstitial fluid pressure changes in humans during water immersion. 679 64

Urinary excretion rate of antidiuretic hormone (UADHV) was studied in male volunteers in response to hypobaric hypoxia. The first series consisted of three groups. The chamber was decompressed to 465, 495, and 438 Torr during high-altitude (HA) exposure for groups I (n = 5), II (n = 5), and III (n = 4), respectively. In group I, the chamber air contained 3.77% CO2 to prevent alkalosis. The level of hypoxemia was similar in groups I and II. Mean 24-h UADHV was unchanged in group I, but increased 96% (P less than 0.05) and 180% (P less than 0.05) in groups II and III, respectively, on day 1 at HA and was normal during subsequent days at HA regardless of symptoms of acute mountain sickness. Shorter sampling intervals employed in a second series of experiments conducted at 495 Torr revealed a twofold increase in UADHV (P less than 0.05) 8-12 h after ascent in eight asymptomatic subjects; UADHV returned to base line within 9 h and remained low. The symptomatic subjects both had increased UADHV (3- and 8-fold from base line) between 2 and 4 h after ascent. Increased UADHV in asymptomatic subjects may be a result of the concomitant decrease in plasma volume, both of which appeared to be eliminated by CO2 supplementation.
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PMID:Antidiuretic hormone responses to eucapnic and hypocapnic hypoxia in humans. 681 99

The effects on cerebral blood flow of alpha- or beta-adrenergic receptor stimulation of cerebral vessels were examined in 13 unanesthetized goats before and during hypercapnia produced by inhalation of 10% CO2 in air. This procedure increased the PCO2 from 34 to 52 and was accompanied by a fall in pH from 7.39 to 7.26. Electrical stimulation of the cervical sympathetic nerve and injections of norepinephrine and tyramine into the internal maxillary artery produced reductions in cerebral blood flow that were abolished or reduced in hypercapnia. The increase in cerebral blood flow in response to beta-adrenergic stimulation with isoproterenol was also reduced. Hypercapnia caused a similar depression of the constrictor and dilatory effects of the nonadrenergic drugs vasopressin and diazoxide. The results show a decreased response of cerebral vessels to adrenergic and nonadrenergic stimuli in hypercapnia. The findings do not suggest any difference between the refractoriness of cerebral vessels in hypercapnia and that described in other vascular beds.
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PMID:Reduction of cerebrovascular reactivity during hypercapnia. 708 68

1. In the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone, hyponatraemia is associated with a normal bicarbonate concentration despite dilution. This normal bicarbonate concentration is related to the development of a hyperaldosteronism, which is attributed to a direct stimulation of the zona glomerulosa by the hyponatraemic state. Some workers have suggested that, to develop this hyperaldosteronism requires the presence of a pituitary factor. To determine whether the pituitary gland plays a role in this hyponatraemia-induced hyperaldosteronism, water intoxication was performed for 24 h in normal and in panhypopituitaric rats. 2. In normal rats, hyponatraemia (108 mmol/l), induced by the administration of 1-desamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin and 2.5% D-glucose-0.45% NaCl by gavage (15% body weight) was associated with a mild increase in bicarbonate concentration, and blood acid-base equilibrium showed a mixed metabolic and respiratory alkalosis (pH 7.57, partial pressure of CO2 29 mmHg, base excess +5.5 mmol/l), and aldosterone concentration was increased 3-fold as compared with the control value. When hyponatraemia (110 mmol/l) was induced in a similar manner in panhypopituitaric rats, we observed a very low aldosterone concentration (< 50 pg/ml) and a compensated respiratory alkalosis (pH 7.45, partial pressure of CO2 30 mmHg, base excess -2.6 mmol/l). The restoration of a hyperaldosteronaemic state in this group of rats was related essentially to corticosteroid intake. 3. These data suggest that corticosteroids play a critical role in the development of hyponatraemia-related hyperaldosteronism, a phenomenon not necessarily dependent on a pituitary factor.
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PMID:Restoration by corticosteroids of the hyperaldosteronism in hyponatraemic rats with panhypopituitarism. 783 96

Acute altitude illnesses include acute mountain sickness (AMS), a benign condition involving headache, nausea, vomiting, irritability, insomnia, dizziness, lethargy, and peripheral edema, and potentially lethal high-altitude cerebral edema and pulmonary edema (HAPE). Recent evidence is summarized that AMS is related to cerebral edema secondary at least in part to hypoxic cerebral vasodilation and elevated cerebral capillary hydrostatic pressure. This results in reduced brain compliance with compression of intracranial structures in the absence of altered global brain metabolism. It is postulated that these primary intracranial events elevate peripheral sympathetic activity that acts neurogenically in the lung possibly in concert with pulmonary capillary stress failure to cause HAPE and in the kidney to promote salt and water retention. The adrenergic responses are likely modulated by striking increases of aldosterone, vasopressin and atrial natriuretic peptide. The effects of exercise on altitude-induced illness and various therapeutic regimens (acetazolamide, CO2 breathing, dexamethasone, and alpha adrenergic inhibitors) are discussed in light of this hypothesis.
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PMID:A neurogenic basis for acute altitude illness. 816 37

1. In spontaneously breathing rats anaesthetized with Saffan, we have investigated the role of vasopressin in the cardiovascular responses evoked by systemic hypoxia (breathing 8 or 6% O2 for 5 min). 2. Breathing 8% O2 evoked an increase in respiratory frequency and tidal volume; arterial O2 pressure (Pa,O2) fell to 37 mmHg and arterial CO2 pressure (Pa,CO2) fell to 30 mmHg. Concomitantly, there was a fall in arterial pressure, tachycardia and increases in femoral and renal vascular conductances indicating net vasodilatation in skeletal muscle and kidney. The vasopressin V1-receptor antagonist, d(CH2)5Tyr(Me)-arginine vasopressin (20 micrograms kg-1 i.v.), had no significant effect on the baseline values of any recorded variables, nor on the respiratory or blood gas changes evoked by 8% O2. However, it accentuated the fall in arterial pressure and the increase in femoral vascular conductance (+22 vs. +77% at the 5th minute) produced by 8% O2, but had no significant effect on the increase in renal vascular conductance. 3. Breathing 6% O2 evoked qualitatively similar responses as 8% O2 but Pa,O2 fell to 33 mmHg and Pa,CO2 fell to 28 mmHg and the respiratory and cardiovascular changes tended to be larger than those evoked by 8% O2. Again the V1-receptor antagonist accentuated the hypoxia-induced fall in arterial pressure and increase in femoral vascular conductance (+5 vs. +76% at the 5th minute). 4. Infusion of vasopressin (1.5 ng min-1 kg-1 i.v.) for 5 min with the aim of producing a plasma concentration comparable to that reached during 8% O2, induced a rise in arterial pressure (9%), bradycardia (-5%) and a decrease in femoral (-11%) and renal vascular conductance (-4%). 5. These results suggest that vasopressin released during hypocapnic hypoxia helps to limit the evoked fall in arterial pressure by exerting a vasoconstrictor influence on skeletal muscle.
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PMID:The role of vasopressin in the regional vascular responses evoked in the spontaneously breathing rat by systemic hypoxia. 830 38

Experiments were designed to determine the role of the L-arginine pathway in endothelium-dependent relaxations to vasopressin. The effects of L-arginine analogues NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), and NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) on basal and vasopressin-induced activity of nitric oxide synthase were studied in isolated canine basilar arteries. Rings with and without endothelium were suspended for isometric tension recording in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution bubbled with 94% O2-6% CO2 (37 degrees C, pH 7.4). Radioimmunoassay was used to determine the level of guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP). All experiments were performed in the presence of indomethacin, a cyclooxygenase inhibitor. L-NAME and L-NMMA caused endothelium-dependent contractions and inhibited basal production of cGMP. In contrast, L-NNA did not affect basal tone or basal production of cGMP. L-Arginine analogues inhibited relaxations to vasopressin but did not affect relaxations to a nitric oxide donor, molsidomine (SIN-1). The effects of L-NNA, L-NAME, and L-NMMA were reversed in the presence of L-arginine. The relaxations to vasopressin were associated with an increase of cGMP levels in the arterial wall. This effect of vasopressin was inhibited in the presence of L-NNA. These studies suggest that the relaxations to vasopressin are mediated by activation of the endothelial L-arginine pathway, leading to increased production of nitric oxide, with subsequent activation of guanylate cyclase in smooth muscle cells. In canine basilar artery, L-NAME and L-NMMA are nonselective inhibitors of both basal and stimulated production of nitric oxide, whereas L-NNA selectively inhibits vasopressin-induced activation of the L-arginine pathway.
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PMID:Endothelial L-arginine pathway and relaxations to vasopressin in canine basilar artery. 838 55

We established renal cell lines from definite nephron segments which were microdissected from kidneys of transgenic C57BL/6 mice, harboring the large T-antigen gene of temperature-sensitive mutant simian virus 40, pSVtsA58(ori-). Cell culture was under a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO2 in air, on collagen-coated dishes, and in RITC80-7 medium with 5% fetal bovine serum, 10 micrograms/ml transferrin, 1 microgram/ml insulin, 10 ng/ml recombinant human EGF, penicillin and streptomycin. Cell line which kept contact inhibition character was established from each segment. Cells derived from distal tubule, cortical and outer medullary collecting duct possessed their cyclic AMP response to arginine-vasopressin, like their original nephron segment. On the other hand, cells derived from terminal proximal tubules (S3 segment) formed a cobblestone-like confluent monolayer, and did not respond to arginine-vasopressin like their fresh segments. Since cisplatin, a well-known nephrotoxic substance, damages proximal tubules (especially S3) rather than collecting ducts, we assayed cell number, protein content, and ATP content of cultured S3 cells at various times after addition of 0.2 mM cisplatin. Decrease of cell number, total protein content and total ATP content of culture cells occurred after 10 h incubation with 0.2 mM cisplatin. The 50% lethal dose (LD50) of cisplatin in S3 cells was 4 x 10(-5) M after 20 h incubation and 8.5 x 10(-6) M after 40 h incubation. Outer medullary collecting duct (OMCD) cells were damaged 30% maximally after 20 h incubation with cisplatin, and LD50 in them became 2.5 x 10(-5) M after 40 h incubation. We could show that the LD50 of cisplatin in the OMCD cell line was three times higher than that in the S3 cell line. Thus, these cell lines are the first in the kidney to definite the segmental origin and to maintain some differentiated unique functions. They are valuable for studies on intrarenal site-specific actions and possible mechanisms of action of pharmacological and toxic substances.
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PMID:Cisplatin-induced toxicity in immortalized renal cell lines established from transgenic mice harboring temperature sensitive SV40 large T-antigen gene. 885 99

In normoxic conscious dogs, increased angiotensin II (ANG II), or activation (disinhibition) of the renin-angiotensin system by vasopressin (AVP) V1-receptor block, increases ventilation and decreases arterial PCO2. Both hormones can be increased during hypoxia and might modulate ventilatory drive. Six conscious dogs were studied before and during hypocapnic, isocapnic, and hypercapnic hypoxia. To study potential hormonal effects during hypocapnic hypoxia, experiment 1 included three protocols in which 12.8% O2 was breathed for 60 min: protocol 1, control studies without block; protocol 2, AVP V1 receptors were blocked at the onset of hypoxia; and protocol 3, ANG II receptors were blocked 20 min before hypoxia. To study potential effects of acid-base changes during acute hypoxia, experiment 2 included two protocols (with and without AVP V1-receptor block). A 40-min period of hypocapnic hypoxia was followed by two successive 20-min periods with hypoxia maintained but inspired CO2 progressively increased. Neither hormonal block affected respiration during the hypoxic conditions. Unlike normoxia in conscious dogs, during acute hypoxia, respiratory control by ANG II is not modulated by AVP and acid-base effects on receptors do not account for this difference.
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PMID:Respiration during acute hypoxia: angiotensin- and vasopressin-receptor blocks. 896 41


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