Role of neuropeptide Y in renal sympathetic vasoconstriction: studies in normal and congestive heart failure rats.

Abstract

Sympathetic nerve activity, including that in the kidney, is increased in heart failure with increased plasma concentrations of norepinephrine and the vasoconstrictor cotransmitter neuropeptide Y (NPY). We examined the contribution of NPY to sympathetically mediated alterations in kidney function in normal and heart failure rats. Heart failure rats were created by left coronary ligation and myocardial infarction. In anesthetized normal rats, the NPY Y(1) receptor antagonist, H 409/22, at two doses, had no effect on heart rate, arterial pressure, or renal hemodynamic and excretory function. In conscious severe heart failure rats, high-dose H 409/22 decreased mean arterial pressure by 8 +/- 2 mm Hg but had no effect in normal and mild heart failure rats. During graded frequency renal sympathetic nerve stimulation (0 to 10 Hz), high-dose H 409/22 attenuated the decreases in renal blood flow only at 10 Hz (-36% +/- 5%, P <.05) in normal rats but did so at both 4 (-29% +/- 4%, P <.05) and 10 Hz (-33% +/- 5%, P <.05) in heart failure rats. The glomerular filtration rate, urinary flow rate, and sodium excretion responses to renal sympathetic nerve stimulation were not affected by high-dose H 409/22 in either normal or heart failure rats. NPY does not participate in the regulation of kidney function and arterial pressure in normal conscious or anesthetized rats. When sympathetic nervous system activity is increased, as in heart failure and intense renal sympathetic nerve stimulation, respectively, a small contribution of NPY to maintenance of arterial pressure and to sympathetic renal vasoconstrictor responses may be identified.

• Authors: G F DiBona, L L Sawin
• Journal: The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine (J Lab Clin Med) Vol. 138 Issue 2 Pg. 119-29 (Aug 2001) ISSN: 0022-2143 [Print] United States
• PMID: 11477379 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)

Chemical References

• Amides
• H 409-22
• Neuropeptide Y
• Receptors, Neuropeptide Y
• neuropeptide Y-Y1 receptor

Topics

• Amides (pharmacology)
• Anesthesia
• Animals
• Blood Pressure (drug effects, physiology)
• Electric Stimulation
• Heart Failure (physiopathology)
• Heart Rate (drug effects, physiology)
• Kidney (blood supply, innervation)
• Kidney Function Tests
• Male
• Neuropeptide Y (physiology)
• Rats
• Rats, Sprague-Dawley
• Receptors, Neuropeptide Y (antagonists & inhibitors)
• Renal Circulation (drug effects, physiology)
• Sympathetic Nervous System (physiology)
• Vasoconstriction (drug effects, physiology)