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Vasopressin and prostaglandin E 2 as regulators of renal function during children’s development

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The main physicochemical parameters of blood serum (the osmolality and concentrations of Na+, K+, Ca2+, and Mg2+) determined in 314 children (from newborn infants to 17-year-old adolescents) and 25 adults were found to be virtually constant throughout the postnatal period, which was due to the high effectiveness of the systems responsible for their stabilization. From the first postnatal days until puberty, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) are involved in the regulation of renal water excretion. In infants, during their first postnatal months, the excretion of solute-free water is correlated with the excretion of PGE2. Adult-type effects of AVP on the reabsorption of solute-free water were observed in children only after 12 postnatal months. A change in the reabsorption of ions in the thick ascending limb of Henle’s loop was shown to be involved in the regulation of the volume of urine excreted. AVP and PGE2 are also involved in the regulation of the distal segment of the nephron and collecting tubules, but their influence on the volume and composition of urine is age-dependent.

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  1. St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, 194100, Russia

    A. A. Kuznetsova & I. I. Glushenko

  2. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194223, Russia

    E. I. Shakhmatova & Yu. V. Natochin

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Kuznetsova, I.I. Glushenko, E.I. Shakhmatova, Yu.V. Natochin, 2007, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 46–54.

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Kuznetsova, A.A., Glushenko, I.I., Shakhmatova, E.I. et al. Vasopressin and prostaglandin E 2 as regulators of renal function during children’s development. Hum Physiol 33, 38–45 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119707010069

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