Renal cortical and papillary blood flow in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Hypertension
- Vol. 11 (6_pt_2), 657-663
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.11.6.657
Abstract
The present study examined whether an alteration in renal medullary hemodynamics is associated with the development of hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). The relationships between whole kidney, cortical and papillary blood flows, and renal perfusion pressure were compared in 3- to 5-, 6- to 9-, and 12- to 16-week-old SHR and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). Cortical and papillary blood flows were similar in the different age groups of SHR and WKY over most of the range of perfusion pressure studied. Control papillary blood flows, determined at a renal perfusion pressure equal to the mean arterial pressure of each animal, were not significantly different in the 3- to 5- and 12- to 16-week-old SHR in comparison to values observed in age-matched WKY. In contrast, the control papillary blood flow was 30% lower in 6- to 9-week-old SHR in comparison to the value observed in WKY. Papillary blood flows were significantly less in all age groups of SHR than the corresponding flows measured in WKY when they were compared at equivalent renal perfusion pressures. These findings indicate that medullary vascular resistance is elevated even in very young SHR and suggest that alterations in vasa recta hemodynamics may participate in the development of hypertension by shifting the pressure-natriuresis relationship toward higher pressures.Keywords
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