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The additional hypertensive response to ANG II in rats fed a high salt diet is accompanied by sympathetic nervous system activation, with increased plasma NE and NE spillover.
The additional hypertensive response to ANG II in animals fed a high salt diet is accompanied by sympathetic nervous system activation.
Supports sympathetic role in salt-augmented ANG II hypertension in rats; leaves open human translation.
The purpose of this study was to investigate total body norepinephrine (NE) kinetics as an index of global sympathetic nervous system (SNS) outflow in a rat model of chronic ANG II-salt hypertension. Male Sprague-Dawley rats fed a 0.4% (normal salt, NS) or 2% (HS) NaCl diet were instrumented with arterial and venous catheters. After 5 days of recovery and a 3-day control period, ANG II (150 ng.kg(-1).min(-1)) was given subcutaneously by minipump for 14 days. Plasma NE levels and total body NE spillover and clearance were determined on control day 3 and ANG II infusion days 7 and 14 using radioisotope dilution principles. To perform this analysis, 3H-NE and NE were measured in arterial plasma after a 90-min infusion of tracer amounts of 3H-NE. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) was similar during the control period in NS and HS rats; however, MAP increased to a higher level in HS rats. During the control period, plasma NE tended to be lower in rats on HS, whereas NE clearance tended to be higher in HS rats. As a result NE spillover was similar in NS and HS rats during the control period. In NS rats, plasma NE, NE spillover, and NE clearance were unchanged by ANG II. In contrast, in rats on the HS diet, plasma NE and NE spillover increased during ANG II infusion, whereas NE clearance was unchanged. In conclusion, a HS diet alone or ANG II infusion in animals fed NS do not affect global sympathetic outflow. However, the additional hypertensive response to ANG II in animals fed HS is accompanied by SNS activation.
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King et al. (2008) studied chronic ANG II-salt hypertension. ANG II infusion + High Salt (HS) diet vs. ANG II infusion + Normal Salt (NS) diet was evaluated on Total body norepinephrine (NE) kinetics (plasma NE levels, NE spillover, NE clearance). The additional hypertensive response to ANG II in rats fed a high salt diet is accompanied by sympathetic nervous system activation, with increased plasma NE and NE spillover.
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