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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 6 1972-R1979, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Glucocorticoid-induced renal vasodilatation is mediated by a direct renal action involving nitric oxide

R. De Matteo and C. N. May
Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

Glucocorticoids increase renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate, but the mechanisms are unclear. We investigated whether the cortisol-induced increment in RBF is a direct renal action or secondary to its systemic effects and whether nitric oxide (NO) plays a role in this response. In conscious sheep, cortisol infused intravenously (5.0 mg/h) or into the renal artery (1.3 mg/h) for 5 h increased RBF by 66 +/- 8 and 53 +/- 11 ml/min, respectively. Plasma glucose was increased by intravenous cortisol (0.4 +/- 0.1 mmol/l) but not by intrarenal cortisol. Renal vein plasma cortisol levels were similar at the end of each infusion (193 +/- 31 intravenously; 151 +/- 25 nmol/l intrarenal), but systemic levels were different (277 +/- 31 intravenous; 69 +/- 10 nmol/l intrarenal). Inhibition of NO synthesis by N omega-nitro-L-arginine infused intravenously (10 mg/kg followed by 5 mg.kg-1.h-1) or intrarenally (2 mg.kg-1.h-1) significantly reduced the cortisol-induced renal vasodilatation. In contrast, constriction of the renal vasculature with intrarenal angiotensin (0.3 microgram/h) did not prevent the cortisol-induced renal vasodilatation. These findings demonstrate that cortisol acts directly on the kidney to cause renal vasodilatation and to increase RBF and suggest that this response involves the endothelium-derived relaxing factor NO.


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