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Ontogeny of atrial natriuretic peptide receptors in fetal rat kidney and adrenal gland

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With in vitro autoradiography, specific receptors for atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) were localized in fetal rat kidney and adrenal glands. Receptors were present over renal vesicles, in the primitive renal medulla and throughout the adrenal gland as early as 16 days gestation. By 20 days gestation, several layers of developing renal corpuscles were present and ANP receptors were localized over developing glomeruli in each layer. Larger accumulations occurred over the juxtamedullary glomeruli. In the medulla, the receptors were localized in a reticular pattern near the pelivis. With emulsion coated sections, ANP receptors in developing renal corpuscles were seen primarily over the lower curve of S-shaped vesicles and around the periphery of the more mature corpuscles. In the renal medulla, receptors were localized over the interstitial cells. In the 16-day-old adrenal gland, ANP receptors were present throughout the cortical area but at 20 days gestation and 1 day postpartum receptors appeared more numerous in the peripheral region. these data suggest that ANP has important developmental effects in the kidney and adrenal gland and may be involved in regulation of body fluid homeostasis in the late gestation rat fetus.

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Scott, J.N., Jennes, L.H. Ontogeny of atrial natriuretic peptide receptors in fetal rat kidney and adrenal gland. Histochemistry 91, 395–400 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00493826

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