Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24087365
Keywords
hypertension; renal functions; reversible unilateral ureteral obstruction
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Both ureteral obstruction and hypertension have significant impacts on kidney functions. Reversible ureteral obstruction in hypertensive rats showed exaggerated alterations in renal functions and other parameters of renal injury compared to normotensive rats.
Both ureteral obstruction (UO) and hypertension are common conditions that affect kidney functions. Hypertension and chronic kidney disease are closely associated with an overlapping and intermingled cause-and-effect relationship. The effect of hypertension on the renal dysfunction following reversible UO has not been studied previously. To study this effect, spontaneously hypertensive (G-HT, n = 10) and normotensive Wistar (G-NT, n = 10) rats underwent 48-h reversible left unilateral UO (UUO), and the effect of UUO was studied 96 h following UUO reversal. The glomerular filtration rate, renal blood flow, and renal tubular functions such as the fractional excretion of sodium in the post-obstructed left kidney (POK) in both groups were significantly altered compared with the non-obstructed right kidney (NOK). However, the alterations in the G-HT were significantly more exaggerated when compared with the G-NT. Similar findings were observed with the histological features, gene expression of kidney injury markers, pro-inflammatory, pro-fibrotic and pro-apoptotic cytokines, and pro-collagen, as well as tissue levels of apoptotic markers. We conclude that hypertension has significantly exaggerated the alterations in renal functions and other parameters of renal injury associated with UUO.
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