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- Title
Renovascular parathyroid hormone-related protein in spontaneously hypertensive rats: Dilator or trophic factor?
- Authors
Fiaschi-Taesch, Nathalie; Endlich, Nicole; Massfelder, Thierry; Endlich, Karlhans; Stewart, Andrew F.; Helwig, Jean-Jacques
- Abstract
Renovascular parathyroid hormone-related protein in spontaneously hypertensive rats: Dilator or trophic factor? Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is expressed throughout the renovascular system, and it dilates renal vessels, increases renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate, and stimulates renin release. Mechanical forces and experimental hypertension have been shown to stimulate PTHrP expression in smooth muscles, suggesting a negative feedback control of vascular tone by PTHrP in hypertension. In this study, we compared the impact of a PTHrP receptor antagonist, PTHrP (7-34), and a PTHrP receptor agonist, PTHrP (1-36), on the vascular resistance of perfused kidneys isolated from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). Endogenous PTHrP appears not to act as a renal vasodilator in either WKY or SHR. However, the vasodilation following infused PTHrP (1-36) is blunted markedly in SHR, possibly due to desensitization or down-regulation of PTH/PTHrP receptors. Negative feedback control of vascular tone by PTHrP in SHR thus appears unlikely. The results raise the question of whether endogenous renovascular PTHrP behaves rather as a growth factor than as a vasodilator.
- Subjects
PARATHYROID hormone; GLOMERULAR filtration rate; RENIN; RENAL hypertension; VASODILATION; VASODILATORS
- Publication
Kidney International, 1998, Vol 54, pS207
- ISSN
0085-2538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1523-1755.1998.06749.x