AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 3 448-F452, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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High-salt diet upregulates activity and mRNA of renal Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in Dahl salt-sensitive rats

A. Nishi, G. Celsi and A. Aperia
Department of Pediatrics, St. Goran's Children's Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

We examined the effect of a high-salt (HS) diet on the regulation of renal cortical Na(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase) in young Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) and salt-resistant (DR) rats. The activity of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase, determined in permeabilized proximal tubule segments, was similar in DS and DR rats on normal salt (NS) diet. HS diet resulted in a twofold increase in proximal tubule Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity in DS rats but not in DR rats. The mRNA abundance, which was also similar in DS and DR rats on NS diet, increased after 2 days on HS diet in both innervated and denervated kidneys from DS rats but had no effect in DR rats. The activity of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase and the content of alpha 1- and beta-protein in cortical homogenate were similar in DS and DR rats on both NS and HS diets. Treatment with benserazide, an inhibitor of dopa decarboxylase, upregulated proximal tubule Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity and increased Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase mRNA in DR rats on HS diet. Taken together, these data indicate that there is a primary defect in the dynamic hormonal regulation of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity in intact tubular cells, which might stimulate Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase transcription.

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