title: Effect of dopamine on the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism.
abstract: Experiments were performed in anesthetized rats to examine whether infusion of dopamine is associated with a reduction in the tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) response of stop-flow pressure (PSF) and early proximal flow rate (VEP) to increases of loop of Henle flow. The purpose of these studies was to test further the validity of the proposal that renal vasodilation is a nonspecific cause for diminished TGF responsiveness. When femoral arterial pressure was kept constant with a suprarenal aortic clamp, intravenous infusion of dopamine at rates of 4, 15, 35, and 75 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 induced a 10.9, 23.4, 31.3, and 30.1% decrease in renal vascular resistance. Maximum PSF and VEP responses were significantly reduced at all dose levels of dopamine, whereas V1/2, the flow rate required to produce the half-maximum response, was not altered. TGF blunting occurred within less than 10 min after starting the dopamine infusion. Peritubular infusion of dopamine reduced maximum PSF responses from 8.8 +/- 0.7 to 4.6 +/- 0.53 mmHg at 10(-4) M (P less than 0.01) and from 6.0 +/- 1.19 to 3.6 +/- 0.55 mmHg at 10(-3) M (P less than 0.05). The results are consistent with the notion that renal vasodilatation may modify TGF responses by preventing the full vasoconstrictor response to changes in luminal NaCl concentration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schnermann
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Todd
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Briggs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004298:Dopamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005246:Feedback; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D007684:Kidney Tubules / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D007687:Kidney Tubules, Proximal / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D011677:Punctures; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D004298:Dopamine