title: Effect of enalapril treatment on the pressure-natriuresis curve in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
abstract: The effect of chronic angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibition on the pressure-natriuresis relation was studied in Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats. Enalapril maleate (25 mg.kg-1.day-1 in drinking water) was started at 4-5 weeks of age. At 7-9 weeks of age, the pressure-natriuresis relation was studied while the rats were under Inactin anesthesia 1 week after the right kidney and adrenal gland were removed. Neural and hormonal influences on the remaining kidney were fixed by surgical renal denervation, adrenalectomy, and infusion of a hormone cocktail (330 microliters.kg-1.min-1) containing high levels of aldosterone, arginine vasopressin, hydrocortisone, and norepinephrine dissolved in 0.9% NaCl containing 1% albumin. Changes in renal function resulting from alterations in renal artery pressure were compared between enalapril-treated and control rats. Mean arterial pressure (+/- SEM) under anesthesia was 118 +/- 5, 94 +/- 4, 175 +/- 3, and 124 +/- 2 mm Hg for control Wistar-Kyoto (n = 10), enalapril-treated Wistar-Kyoto (n = 10), control spontaneously hypertensive (n = 9), and enalapril-treated spontaneously hypertensive (n = 9) rats, respectively. When renal artery pressure was set at values above approximately 125 mm Hg, control spontaneously hypertensive rats excreted less sodium and water than control Wistar-Kyoto rats. Enalapril treatment resulted in a significant and similar shift to the left of the pressure-natriuresis relation in both strains of rats so that a lower renal artery pressure was required to excrete a similar amount of sodium when compared with their respective untreated controls.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: McLennan
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Kline
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Mercer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D004326:Drinking / Q000187:drug effects; D004656:Enalapril / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009318:Natriuresis / Q000187:drug effects*; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR / Q000502:physiology*; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY; D012077:Renal Artery; D012079:Renal Circulation / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004656:Enalapril