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Physiol Rep. 2021 Aug;9(16):e14990. doi: 10.14814/phy2.14990.

Angiotensin II-induced renal angiotensinogen formation is enhanced in mice lacking tumor necrosis factor-alpha type 1 receptor.

Physiological reports

Dewan S A Majid, Eamonn Mahaffey, Alexander Castillo, Minolfa C Prieto, L Gabriel Navar

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physiology, Hypertension & Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

PMID: 34427402 PMCID: PMC8383705 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.14990

Abstract

In hypertension induced by angiotensin II (AngII) administration with high salt (HS) intake, intrarenal angiotensinogen (AGT) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) levels increase. However, TNF-α has been shown to suppress AGT formation in cultured renal proximal tubular cells. We examined the hypothesis that elevated AngII levels during HS intake reduces TNF-α receptor type 1 (TNFR1) activity in the kidneys, thus facilitating increased intrarenal AGT formation. The responses to HS diet (4% NaCl) with chronic infusion of AngII (25 ng/min) via implanted minipump for 4 weeks were assessed in wild-type (WT) and knockout (KO) mice lacking TNFR1 or TNFR2 receptors. Blood pressure was measured by tail-cuff plethysmography, and 24-h urine samples were collected using metabolic cages prior to start (0 day) and at the end of 2nd and 4th week periods. The urinary excretion rate of AGT (uAGT; marker for intrarenal AGT) was measured using ELISA. HS +AngII treatment for 4 weeks increased mean arterial pressure (MAP) in all strains of mice. However, the increase in MAP in TNFR1KO (77 ± 2 to 115 ± 3 mmHg; n = 7) was significantly greater (p < 0.01) than in WT (76 ± 1 to 102 ± 2 mmHg; n = 7) or in TNFR2KO (78 ± 2 to 99 ± 5 mmHg; n = 6). The increase in uAGT at 4th week was also greater (p < 0.05) in TNFR1KO mice (6 ± 2 to 167 ± 75 ng/24 h) than that in WT (6 ± 3 to 46 ± 16 ng/24 h) or in TNFR2KO mice (8 ± 7 to 65 ± 44 ng/24 h). The results indicate that TNFR1 exerts a protective role by mitigating intrarenal AGT formation induced by elevated AngII and HS intake.

© 2021 The Authors. Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society.

Keywords: High salt intake; TNF-α receptors; angiotensin II; angiotensinogen; renal injury

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