Objective: To establish the physical basis for low GFR in ischemic renal injury (IR) and determine whether abnormalities in GFR determinants persist after renal recovery. Method: IR was generated in male and female Wistar Froemter rats by clamping both renal pedicles for 60 minutes. Controls had same surgery without pedicle clamp. Glomerular hemodynamics were assessed by renal micropuncture (MP) after 1 day, 1 week, or 4 weeks. Single nephron GFR (SNGFR) was paired with tubular stop-flow (PSF) and free-flow pressure (PFF) in each nephron. Afferent Starling pressure (EFPa) is PSF-PFF. Glomerular capillary pressure (PGC) was computed from PSF, PFF and plasma oncotic pressure. ANOVA factors included IR, sex, time point and date of experiment (nested). Inter-nephron heterogeneity was extracted from normalized root-square difference between each data point and the mean for that animal. (total n=349 nephrons, 47 rats). Results: [Formula: see text] Summary and conclusion: The physical cause of low GFR in IR was low EFPa, which resulted from low PGC with normal PFF in all animals except 1. The injured kidney manifest elevated inter-nephron variability for all variables. Mean values for SNGFR and intra-renal pressures returned to normal in the “recovered” kidney, but variability between nephrons did not return to normal. Female rats had lower baseline SNGFR and PGC than males but the hemodynamic patterns during IR and renal recovery were not differentiable by sex (excluding one female outlier with high PFF). Despite “normal” GFR and PGC, the “recovered” kidney is not a “normal” kidney. NIH NIDDK R01 132690. This is the full abstract presented at the American Physiology Summit 2024 meeting and is only available in HTML format. There are no additional versions or additional content available for this abstract. Physiology was not involved in the peer review process.
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