title: Compensatory changes in calcium uptake and phospholipid composition in rat renal brush border membranes after unilateral nephrectomy.
abstract: Unilateral nephrectomy (uNX) induces a decrease in calcium uptake by brush border membranes (BBM) in the remnant kidney compared to control membranes. This effect was found to occur within 48 h and persisted at 2 weeks after uNX. Moreover, this decreased calcium uptake appears to occur through a diminished binding capacity of the BBM. Our studies also show that renal hypertrophy induced a specific decrease in the content of acidic phospholipids in remnant kidney BBM by 48 h after uNX. The decrease in phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and phosphatidic acid was transitory but phosphatidylinositol 4-monophosphate levels remained lower in the BBM at 2 weeks after uNX compared to control membranes. These results suggest that the decreased calcium uptake by remnant kidney BBM after uNX is related to a decreased membrane content of acidic phospholipids. This effect might account, at least in part, for the decrease in fractional calcium reabsorption during renal compensatory hypertrophy.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de la Unidad Metabólica, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Esbrit
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006984:Hypertrophy; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D007700:Kinetics; D008871:Microvilli / Q000378:metabolism*; D009392:Nephrectomy; D010712:Phosphatidic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D010712:Phosphatidic Acids; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D010743:Phospholipids; C037178:phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate; D002118:Calcium