Population
Chronically instrumented one-kidney conscious dogs
Comparison
Synthetic alpha-human ANP- infused at 200 ng/min… vs The same dogs with a normally filtering kidney
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Does not inform ANP-based therapies in patients; leaves open whether peripheral clearance dominates in human cardiorenal disease.
The kidney contributes only a small portion to the whole body metabolic clearance of atrial natriuretic peptide, which is primarily cleared by peripheral tissues.
Robyn L. Woods (1988) studied this question.
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