Interactions between nitric oxide and renal nerves on pressure-diuresis and natriuresis.

The present study examined the effect of renal denervation on the impairment of the pressure-diuresis response produced by nitric oxide synthesis blockade. The experiments were performed in Inactin-anesthetized Munich-Wistar rats. The animals with innervated kidneys had lower baseline values of renal blood flow, GFR, sodium excretion (UNaV), and urine flow (V) than rats with denervated kidneys. Also, renal denervation shifted pressure-diuresis and natriuresis toward lower pressures. A low dose of N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine methyl esther (NAME, 3.7 nmol/kg per min) reduced UNaV and the fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) and blunted pressure-natriuresis only in rats with innervated kidneys, whereas it had no effects in rats with denervated kidneys. A medium dose of NAME (37 nmol/kg per min) lowered FENa only in rats with innervated kidneys. The administration of NAME (37 nmol/kg per min) blunted pressure-diuresis and natriuresis in kidneys with or without the renal nerves, but the effect was more pronounced in rats with innervated kidneys. A high dose of NAME (3.7 micromol + 185 nmol/kg per min) increased UNaV and FENa only in rats with innervated kidneys, whereas it reduced GFR, V, UnaV, and FENa in rats with denervated kidneys. However, pressure-natriuresis and diuresis were blunted by this high dose of NAME independently of the presence or absence of renal nerves. These results demonstrate that renal nerves potentiate the renal effects of low doses of NAME on renal function and pressure-diuresis and natriuresis. However, high doses of NAME abolish pressure-diuresis independently of renal nerves, and the natriuretic effect of NAME in innervated kidneys may be attributed to reflex inhibition of sympathetic tone due to the rise in arterial pressure.

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