AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 266, Issue 5 746-F755, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Glomerular response to acute protein load is not blunted by high-protein diet or nephron reduction

M. Burtin, D. Laouari, C. Kindermans and C. Kleinknecht
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Unite 192, Hopital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France.

Inulin clearance (CIn) was measured in the presence of varying degrees of renal excision (NX, 0-85% of renal mass by weight), in anesthetized rats fed on high-protein (HP, 30%), median-protein (MP, 10%), or low-protein (LP, 7%) diets, before and during amino acid (AA) infusion or before and after an intragastric protein load. CIn was higher in rats fed HP than in rats fed LP in controls (3.4 vs. 2.1 ml/min) and in rats with NX up to 70% after feeding for 3 wk (1.4 vs. 0.7 ml/min) or 4 days (1.5 vs. 1.1 ml/min). The difference decreased from 0% to 70% NX, and disappeared when NX exceeded 70%. Acute AA infusion and intragastric loads always increased CIn with wide individual variations. The increase was greater in rats fed HP than in rats fed MP and LP (+1.4 vs. 0.8 and 1.1 ml/min for 0% NX), diminished with greater NX (0.7 vs. 0.2 and 0.4 ml/min for 70% NX), and was very small for NX above 70%. However, when expressed as the percent of baseline values, the mean CIn increment after acute stimulation remained constant (30-45%), regardless of renal ablation and of diet. Thus preexisting hyperfiltration resulting from diet or from renal ablation does not suppress the glomerular response to an acute protein load, and acute loads afford no advantages over baseline glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measurements. By contrast, chronic protein feeding increases GFR only when nephron loss is not too severe.

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