Abstract
This study aimed at examining the influence of acute hypoxia on renin secretion and renin gene expression in the kidney. To this end, male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to severe hypoxic stress (8% O2) or to carbon monoxide (0.1% CO) for 6 h, and plasma renin activity (PRA) and renal renin mRNA levels were determined. PRA values increased from 3 to 13 and 10 ng angiotensin I x h(-1) x ml(-1), and renin mRNA levels increased by 120 and 100% during hypoxia and CO, respectively. Lowering the PO2 from 150 to 20 or 7 mmHg in the gas atmosphere of primary cultures of renal juxtaglomerular cells had no influence on renin secretion and renin gene expression after 6 and 20 h. Our findings thus suggest that both arterial and venous hypoxia can be powerful stimulators of renin secretion and renin gene expression in vivo. Because renal denervation did not prevent stimulation of the renin system by hypoxia, the effect could be indirectly mediated via the baroreceptor-macula densa mechanism. Another potential mediator of the effect could be circulating catecholamines, since we found that plasma norepinephrine increased from 0.7 to 1.5 and 2.4 ng/ml and plasma epinephrine increased from 0.3 to 1.4 and 2.7 ng/ml during hypoxia and CO inhalation, respectively.
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