Journal
KIDNEY & BLOOD PRESSURE RESEARCH
Volume 37, Issue 4-5, Pages 379-391Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000355716
Keywords
High salt; Nephron number; Heart; Urinary production; Albuminuria; Glomerulosclerosis; Renal vasculature; Tubular transporter
Funding
- ELAN fund of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Numberg
- IZKF Erlangen
- Ulrich-Gessler Stiftung
- Deutsche Hochdruckliga
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Aims: To test the suggested association of low nephron number and later development of renal and cardiovascular disease we investigated the effects of high sodium diet in heterozygous GDNF+/- mice. Methods: Aged wild type and GDNF+/- mice were grouped together according to high sodium (HS, 4%) or low sodium (LS, 0.03%) diet for 4 weeks. The heart, the aorta and the kidneys were processed for morphometric and stereological evaluations and TaqMan PCR. Results: On HS GDNF+/- mice showed significantly higher drinking volume and urine production than wt and mean arterial blood pressure tended to be higher. Heart weight was higher in GDNF+/- than in wt, but the difference was only significant for LS. HS significantly increased cardiac interstitial tissue in GDNF+/-, but not in wt. On LS GDNF+/- mice had significantly larger glomeruli than wt and HS led to an additional two fold increase of glomerular area compared to LS. On electron microscopy glomerular damage after HS was seen in GDNF+/-, but not in wt. Dietary salt intake modulated renal IL-10 gene expression in GDNF+/-. Conclusion: In the setting of 30% lower nephron number HS diet favoured maladaptive changes of the kidney as well as of the cardiovascular system. Copyright (C) 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel
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