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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 578-593Publisher
AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2018080844
Keywords
glomerular hyperfiltration; hyperglycemia; SGLT1; NOS1; tubuloglomerular feedback
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Funding
- American Society of Nephrology Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Awards
- American Heart Association Career Development Award [18CDA34110441]
- National Institutes of Health [DK112042, DK106102, DK099276, HL142814, HL137987]
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Background Glomerular hyperfiltration is common in early diabetes and is considered a risk factor for later diabetic nephropathy. We propose that sodium-glucose cotransporter 1 (SGLT1) senses increases in luminal glucose at the macula densa, enhancing generation of neuronal nitric oxide synthase 1 (NOS1)-dependent nitric oxide (NO) in the macula densa and blunting the tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) response, thereby promoting the rise in GFR. Methods We used microperfusion, micropuncture, and renal clearance of FITC-inulin to examine the effects of tubular glucose on NO generation at the macula densa, TGF, and GFR in wild-type and macula densa-specific NOS1 knockout mice. Results Acute intravenous injection of glucose induced hyperglycemia and glucosuria with increased GFR in mice. We found that tubular glucose blunts the TGF response in vivo and in vitro and stimulates NO generation at the macula densa. We also showed that SGLT1 is expressed at the macula densa; in the presence of tubular glucose, SGLT1 inhibits TGF and NO generation, but this action is blocked when the SGLT1 inhibitor KGA-2727 is present. In addition, we demonstrated that glucose increases NOS1 expression and NOS1 phosphorylation at Ser1417 in mouse renal cortex and cultured human kidney tissue. In macula densa-specific NOS1 knockout mice, glucose had no effect on NO generation, TGF, and GFR. Conclusions We identified a novel mechanism of acute hyperglycemia-induced hyperfiltration wherein increases in luminal glucose at the macula densa upregulate the expression and activity of NOS1 via SGLT1, blunting the TGF response and promoting glomerular hyperfiltration.
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