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Prostaglandin E2 induced changes in renal blood flow, renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure and sodium excretion in
C R Long1, Y Kinoshita, F G Knox
1Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota 55905.
Abstract:
Prostaglandin E2, when infused into the renal artery of the dog, is a vasodilator and increases both renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure and sodium excretion. Similar studies in the rat, however, have been inconclusive. The present study examined the effect of prostaglandin E2 infusion into the renal interstitium, by means of a chronically implanted matrix, on renal blood flow, renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure and sodium excretion in the rat. Prostaglandin E2 was continuously infused directly into the kidney interstitium to mimic endogenous prostaglandin E2 production by renal cells. The maximum change in each of these parameters occurred when 10(-5) M PGE2 was infused. Renal blood flow increased from 4.70 +/- 0.91 to 5.45 +/- 0.35 ml/min (p less than 0.05) while renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure decreased from 3.9 +/- 0.4 to 2.6 +/- 0.5 mmHg (p less than 0.05) and fractional excretion of sodium decreased from 1.02 +/- 0.20 to 0.61 +/- 0.12% (p less than 0.05). Thus, the present study demonstrates that renal interstitial infusion of prostaglandin E2 increases total renal blood flow but decreases both renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure and urinary sodium excretion in the rat.
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