Summary
Mammalian glomerular filtration rate (GFR) autoregulation can be impaired by protocols that inhibit tubuloglomrular feedback, such as high sodium intake. Domestic fowl were fed diets containing either high sodium (0.39% Na: High-Na Group) or low sodium (0.03% Na: Low-Na Group). An arterial snare was used to reduce renal arterial perfusion pressure (RAPP) in a stepwise fashion to evaluate GFR autoregulation. Absolute sodium excretion, fractional sodium excretion (FENa), and ambient systemic arterial blood pressure were significantly elevated in the High-Na Group when compared with the Low-Na Group, and pressure natriuresis was abolished by the Low-Na diet. However, GFR autoregulatory profiles were identical in birds fed High-Na and Low-Na diets, suggesting that tubuloglomerular feed-back does not contribute significantly to avian GFR autoregulation. Filtering glomeruli were stained in vivo with alcian blue dye to determine if RAPP-induced reductions in GFR are associated with cessation of filtration (glomerular intermittency) by a portion of the nephron population. RAPP was held below the GFR autoregulatory range (experimental group) or was at ambient systemic arterial pressure (control group) during glomerular staining. Reducing RAPP below the autoregulatory range reduced GFR by 50%, but similar glomerular size distribution profiles were observed for experimental and control groups. These results indicate that sustained glomerular intermittency does not contribute to the decrease in GFR when RAPP is reduced below the autoregulatory range.
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Abbreviations
- BW :
-
body weight
- C :
-
control
- E :
-
excretion
- FE :
-
fractional excretion
- FF :
-
filtration fraction
- GFR :
-
glomerular filtration rate
- PAH :
-
p-amino hippuric acid
- RAPP :
-
renal arterial perfusion pressure
- RPF :
-
renal plasma flow
- RT :
-
reptilian-type
- SNGFR :
-
single nephron glomerular filtration rate
- U OSM :
-
urine osmolarity
- UFR :
-
urine flow rate
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Vena, V.E., Lac, T.H. & Wideman, R.F. Dietary sodium, glomerular filtration rate autoregulation, and glomerular size distribution profiles in domestic fowl (Gallus gallus). J Comp Physiol B 160, 7–16 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00258757
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