title: Atrial natriuretic peptide in human cerebrospinal fluid.
abstract: We measured immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collected from patients with various neurologic disorders requiring diagnostic lumbar puncture. ANP was present in all of the CSF samples from 45 patients (1.7 +/- 0.6 pmol/L, mean +/- SD). CSF ANP levels were not related to the underlying central nervous diseases of the patients, to the presence or the absence of consciousness disturbance, or to CSF osmolalities in individual patients. In 35 patients, the mean ANP concentration in CSF corresponded to 27% of that in plasma, and there was no significant correlation between ANP concentrations in each paired sample. When ANP in pooled CSF was extracted by anti-ANP-agarose and analyzed by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), multiple peaks of ANP were found. One of the major ANP peaks was identified as ANP-(103-126) on the basis of its retention time on HPLC and the specificity of the antiserum used in the radioimmunoassay; however, none of other peaks coeluted with ANP-(99-126), ANP-(101-126), ANP-(102-126), ANP-(103-125), or ANP-(105-126). We conclude from these results that ANP is present in human CSF that is differently processed from ANP in the cardiac atrium.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaji
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Johshita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishibashi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Takaku
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Teramoto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000097:blood / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D011863:Radioimmunoassay
chemical_list: D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor