Journal
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 77, Issue 7, Pages 601-608Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.522
Keywords
androgens; calbindin-D-28K; calciotropic hormones; orchidectomy; TRPV5
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- National Science Council-Taiwan [NSC 96-2314-B-016-007-MY3]
- Research Fund of Tri-Service General Hospital [TSGH-C97-81]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [NWO-ALW 814.02.001]
- Dutch Kidney Foundation [C05.4106]
- European Science Foundation
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Although gender differences in the renal handling of calcium have been reported, the overall contribution of androgens to these differences remains uncertain. We determined here whether testosterone affects active renal calcium reabsorption by regulating calcium transport proteins. Male mice had higher urinary calcium excretion than female mice and their renal calcium transporters were expressed at a lower level. We also found that orchidectomized mice excreted less calcium in their urine than sham-operated control mice and that the hypocalciuria was normalized after testosterone replacement. Androgen deficiency increased the abundance of the renal mRNA and protein of both the luminal transient receptor potential vanilloid-subtype 5 (TRPV5) and intracellular calbindin-D-28K transporters, which in turn were suppressed by testosterone treatment. There were no significant differences in serum estrogen, parathyroid hormone, or 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 levels between control and orchidectomized mice with or without testosterone. Moreover, incubation of primary rabbit connecting tubule and cortical collecting duct cells with a nonaromatizable androgen, dihydrotestosterone, reduced transcellular calcium transport. Thus, our study shows that gender differences in renal calcium handling are, in part, mediated by the inhibitory actions of androgens on TRPV5-mediated active renal calcium transport. Kidney International (2010) 77, 601-608; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.522; published online 20 January 2010
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