Evaluation of erythropoietin production in dogs with reduced functional renal tissue.

This study was designed to determine the quantity of functional renal tissue needed to maintain homeostasis of red blood cell production by evaluating the erythropoietin (EPO) production response to phlebotomic stimulation in the 1/2- and 1/4-kidney dogs surgically prepared. The results showed that the reduction in functional renal tissue caused a decrease in EPO production, which led to the delay in recovery from anemia. In the anemic progress stage, the plasma EPO level showed a transition proportional to the quantity of functional renal tissue immediately after the operation for tissue reduction. The 1/2-kidney dog group still kept such proportional relation even in the recovery stage. Thus, the half of the normal renal tissue was considered sufficiently contributory to EPO production needed to maintain homeostasis of red blood cell production. However, the 1/4-kidney dog group precipitously decreased in plasma EPO level in the recovery stage and fell into an extremely unfavorable anemia. This indicated that homeostatic maintenance in erythropoiesis would be impossible more below a quarter of normal renal tissue. These findings disclosed that reduction in functional renal tissue quantity would sensitively influence homeostatic maintenance of red blood cell production through the decrease in EPO production, even if it does not affect renal function concerned with urine production.

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