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Hypertension. 1988 Feb;11(2):160-5.
Enalapril attenuates natriuresis of atrial natriuretic factor in humans.

Gaillard CA, Koomans HA, Mees EJ.

Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands.

We studied the effect of converting enzyme inhibition with enalapril on the natriuresis observed after administration of atrial natriuretic factor (human ANF-[99-126], given as a 100-micrograms bolus i.v. injection) in eight healthy humans consuming a 100 mmol sodium diet. Without enalapril, sodium excretion rose from 127 +/- 19 (mean +/- SE) to 437 +/- 103 mumol/min in the first 20 minutes after ANF was administered. Clearance studies performed during maximal water diuresis indicated a rise in glomerular filtration rate (inulin clearance), free water clearance, phosphate, lithium, uric acid, and magnesium excretion. Four days of enalapril (20 mg b.i.d.) increased effective renal plasma flow (p-aminohippurate clearance) and reduced blood pressure (from 114/71 +/- 2/2 to 105/60 +/- 2/1 mm Hg). Under these conditions baseline sodium excretion was not different from the control study, but it rose less after ANF (from 117 +/- 22 to 242 +/- 63 mumol/min), and the increments in glomerular filtration rate, free water clearance, phosphate, lithium, uric acid, and magnesium were all blunted and nonsignificant. In addition, effective renal plasma flow tended to fall; this effect was not observed when ANF was given without enalapril. These results support the notion that the effects of ANF on renal hemodynamics and on tubular sodium handling depend on renal angiotensin II and that blood pressure reduction may interfere with the ANF-induced natriuresis.

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Circ Res. 1990 Jan;66(1):176-84.
Changes of atrial natriuretic peptide and its messenger RNA with development and regression of cardiac hypertrophy in renovascular hypertensive rats.

Matsubara H, Yamamoto J, Hirata Y, Mori Y, Oikawa S, Inada M.

Department of Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Japan.

We assessed the changes in atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and its messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in atria and ventricles in relation to hemodynamic factors during antihypertensive treatments in two-kidney, one-clip renovascular hypertensive rats (RHRs). Hypertension of 10-week duration caused a twofold increase in the left ventricular weight/body weight ratio, a significant increase in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, and an eightfold increase in left ventricular ANP mRNA levels in RHRs, as compared with the levels in control rats. Uninephrectomy or 4 weeks of treatment with the converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril reduced the blood pressure to the control level, with the complete reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, and ANP mRNA levels. Four weeks of treatment with the arterial vasodilator hydralazine significantly, but not completely, reduced the high blood pressure, but it did not influence left ventricular hypertrophy, end-diastolic pressure, and ANP mRNA levels. The increased ANP synthesis observed in the right ventricles of RHRs also reverted to the control level by uninephrectomy or enalapril treatment, but not by hydralazine, with a time course similar to that of left ventricular ANP. In addition, uninephrectomy caused the left and right ventricular ANP and ANP mRNA levels of RHRs to fall to the levels of control rats as early as 1 week, despite persistent left ventricular hypertrophy.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 1991 May;18(5):375-8.
Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition on renal norepinephrine spillover rate and baroreflex responses in conscious rabbits.

Noshiro T, Way D, McGrath BP.

Monash University Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

1. To evaluate the effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition on sympathetic nerve activity, renal and total norepinephrine (NE) spillover rates were examined under control conditions and during enalaprilat infusion at rest and in response to sodium nitroprusside (SNP)-induced hypotension. 2. Resting renal and total NE spillover rate during enalaprilat infusion were similar to control values. 3. During SNP infusion at 10 micrograms/kg per min, renal NE spillover rate increased by 26% in enalaprilat-treated group and by 39% in controls, in response to falls in mean arterial pressure (MAP) of 25 and 19% respectively. 4. During sympathetic stimulation induced by SNP, total NE spillover rate was significantly increased in both groups, but the 50% (s.e.m. = 12) increase in the enalaprilat-treated group was less (P less than 0.05) than the 97% (s.e.m. = 16) change observed in controls. 5. Enalaprilat treatment resulted in a higher renal to total NE spillover ratio (P less than 0.05). The ratio fell in parallel in both groups during SNP-induced hypotension. 6. This study indicates that the sympathetic nervous system interacts dynamically with the renin-angiotensin system during hypotensive stimulation but this occurs predominantly at sites other than the kidney.

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