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Osmoregulation of vasopressin release and gene transcription under acute and chronic hypovolemia in rats

Department of Metabolic Diseases, Field of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Submitted 16 June 2003 ; accepted in final form 2 November 2003

Although acute decreases in plasma volume are known to enhance the osmotically induced arginine vasopressin (AVP) release, it is unclear whether there is also such interaction at the level of gene transcription. It also remains to be established how sustained changes in plasma volume affect the osmoregulation. In this study, we examined how acute and chronic decreases in blood volume affected the osmoregulation of AVP release and gene transcription in rats. Acute hypovolemia was induced by intraperitoneal injection of polyethylene glycol (PEG), and chronic hypovolemia was induced by 3 days of water deprivation (WD) or 12 days of salt loading (SL). Rats were injected with isotonic or hypertonic saline, and plasma AVP levels and AVP heteronuclear (hn)RNA expression in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei, an indicator of gene transcription, were examined in relation to plasma osmolality in each group. Plasma AVP levels were correlated with plasma Na levels in all groups. Whereas the regression lines relating plasma AVP to Na were almost identical among control, WD, and SL groups, the thresholds of plasma Na for AVP release were significantly decreased only in the PEG group. AVP hnRNA levels were also correlated with plasma Na levels in control and PEG groups, and the thresholds were significantly decreased in the PEG group. In contrast, there was no significant correlation of AVP hnRNA and plasma Na levels in WD and SL groups. Thus it was demonstrated that acute and chronic reduction in plasma volume affected the osmoregulation of AVP release and gene transcription in different ways.

heteronuclear RNA; water deprivation; salt loading; polyethylene glycol; hypertonic saline

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