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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-RENAL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 303, Issue 2, Pages F253-F258Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00028.2012
Keywords
renal stereology; renal function; mean arterial pressure
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- National Heart Foundation of Australia [G09M4285]
- Postgraduate Biomedical Research Scholarship
- Career Development Fellowship [CRO7M3337]
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Walker KA, Cai X, Caruana G, Thomas MC, Bertram JF, Kett MM. High nephron endowment protects against salt-induced hypertension. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 303: F253-F258, 2012. First published May 9, 2012; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00028.2012.-While low nephron number is associated with increased risk of developing cardiovascular and renal disease, the functional consequences of a high nephron number are unknown. We tested the hypothesis that a high nephron number provides protection against hypertensive and renal insults. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) and renal function were characterized in male wild-type (WT) and transforming growth factor-beta 2 heterozygous (Tgfb2(+/-)) mice under basal conditions and following a chronic high-salt diet. Kidneys were collected for unbiased stereological analysis. Baseline MAP and renal function were indistinguishable between genotypes. The chronic high-salt diet (5% NaCl for 4 wk followed by 8% NaCl for 4 wk) led to similar step-wise increases in urine volume, Na+ excretion, and albuminuria in the genotypes. The 5% NaCl diet induced modest and similar increases in MAP (3.5 +/- 1.6 and 3.4 +/- 0.8 mmHg in WT and Tgfb2(+/-), respectively). After the step up to the 8% NaCl diet, MAP increased further in WT (+15.9 +/- 5.1 mmHg), but not Tgfb2(+/-) (-0.1 +/- 1.0 mmHg), mice. Nephron number was 30% greater in Tgfb2(+/-) than WT mice and was not affected by the chronic high-salt diet. Mean glomerular volume was lower in Tgfb2(+/-) than WT mice, and the chronic high-salt diet induced significant glomerular hypertrophy. In a separate cohort of mice, an acute, 7-day, 8% NaCl diet induced similar rises in MAP in the genotypes. This is the first study to examine the physiological characteristics of a model of high nephron number, and the findings are consistent with this phenotype providing protection against chronic, but not acute, hypertensive insults.
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