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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 295, Issue 6, Pages R1882-R1890Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90529.2008
Keywords
dorsal rhizotomy; high-sodium diet; renorenal reflexes; spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity; reflex renal nerve stimulation
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- Department of Veterans Affairs, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [RO1-HL-66068]
- American Heart Association Heartland Affiliate [0750046Z]
- Adlerbertska Forskningsstiftelsen
- Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, Goteborg, Sweden
- Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kopp UC, Jones SY, DiBona GF. Afferent renal denervation impairs baroreflex control of efferent renal sympathetic nerve activity. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 295: R1882-R1890, 2008. First published October 22, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.90529.2008.-Increasing efferent renal sympathetic nerve activity (ERSNA) increases afferent renal nerve activity (ARNA), which decreases ERSNA to prevent sodium retention. High-sodium diet enhances ARNA, suggesting an important role for ARNA in suppressing ERSNA during excess sodium intake. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is elevated in afferent renal denervated by dorsal rhizotomy (DRX) rats fed high-sodium diet. We examined whether the increased MAP in DRX is due to impaired arterial baroreflex function. In DRX and sham DRX rats fed high-sodium diet, arterial baroreflex function was determined in conscious rats by intravenous nitroprusside and phenylephrine or calculation of transfer function gain from arterial pressure to ERSNA (spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity). Increasing MAP did not suppress ERSNA to the same extent in DRX as in sham DRX, -60 +/- 4 vs. -77 +/- 6%. Maximum gain, -4.22 +/- 0.45 vs. -6.04 +/- 0.90% Delta ERSNA/mmHg, and the maximum value of instantaneous gain, -4.19 +/- 0.45 vs. -6.04 +/- 0.81% Delta ERSNA/mmHg, were less in DRX than in sham DRX. Likewise, transfer function gain was lower in DRX than in sham DRX, 3.9 +/- 0.2 vs. 6.1 +/- 0.5 NU/mmHg. Air jet stress produced greater increases in ERSNA in DRX than in sham DRX, 35,000 +/- 4,900 vs. 20,900 +/- 3,410%.s (area under the curve). Likewise, the ERSNA responses to thermal cutaneous stimulation were greater in DRX than in sham DRX. These studies suggest impaired arterial baroreflex suppression of ERSNA in DRX fed high-sodium diet. There were no differences in arterial baroreflex function in DRX and sham DRX fed normal-sodium diet. Impaired arterial baroreflex function contributes to increased ERSNA, which would eventually lead to sodium retention and increased MAP in DRX rats fed high-sodium diet.
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