title: Identification of type 1 IP(3) receptors in the rat kidney and their modulation by immobilization stress.
abstract: Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP(3)-receptor) is a calcium channel, transporting calcium from intracellular stores to the cytoplasm. In kidney, IP(3)-receptors are involved in the signal transduction of various hormones. In our work we studied the effect of immobilization stress on the IP(3)-receptor's protein content in renal cortex and the medulla of normotensive and hypertensive rats. We detected both mRNA and type 1 IP(3)-receptor protein in medulla, but not in renal cortex. We found that this receptor was approximately twice as abundant in normotensive as in genetically hypertensive rat kidney. Immobilization stress decreased the amount of type 1 IP(3)-receptor in the renal medulla of normotensive rats approximately five times, while no effect due to single and/or repeated stress was observed in the renal medulla of spontaneously hypertensive rats. The results indicate that expression of type 1 IP(3)-receptor in renal medulla is modulated by hypertension and immobilization stress.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Záciková
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ondrias
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kvetnanský
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Krizanová
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015536:Down-Regulation; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism*; D007103:Immobilization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D007679:Kidney Medulla / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate