Abstract
The circadian rhythms of urine volume and urinary excretion of sodium, potassium, kallikrein, and aldosterone were analyzed by a multivariate method (cosinor method) in 20 healthy Japanese women on an ordinary diet. The relationship of urinary kallikrein and aldosterone excretion to urine volume and urinary sodium and potassium excretion was studied by assessing the correlation of the circadian rhythms. The acrophases in the circadian rhythms of urine volume (16:51) and urinary sodium excretion (16:55) appeared after the acrophase of urinary kallikrein excretion (15:28). There was a highly significant correlation between the circadian rhythm of urinary kallikrein excretion and the circadian rhythms of urine volume ( r = 0.948) and urinary sodium excretion ( r = 0.921). These results suggest that the renal kallikrein-kinin system participates in the regulation of renal water and sodium excretion in persons on an ordinary diet. A highly significant relationship between the acrophases in the circadian rhythms of urine volume and sodium excretion ( r = 0.935) also suggests that water and sodium excretion may have a mutual influence on the kidneys. There were positive correlations between the circadian rhythms of potassium excretion and kallikrein excretion and potassium excretion and sodium excretion; and the latter relationship was relatively closer than the former. The acrophase in the circadian rhythm of aldosterone excretion did not correlate well with the acrophases of the other urine variables including sodium excretion.
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