The goal of Project 2 in this PPG is to understand renal cellular metabolic mechanisms of salt-sensitive hypertension. Recent work, including work in this project in the current cycle of PPG, has discovered a novel role of fumarase (Fh1) and fumarate metabolism in hypertension in the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rat. Fumarase primarily catalyzes the conversion of fumarate to malate in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle in mitochondria. Fumarase enzyme activity is lower in the kidneys of SS rats than SS.13BN or Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, and fumarate is higher and malate is lower in the kidneys of SS rats. Transgenic over-expression of fumarase on the background of SS rat (SSTgFh1) attenuates hypertension. Intravenous infusion of a fumarate precursor in SS.13BN rats exacerbates hypertension. It remains unknown 1) what mechanisms mediate the effect of fumarase-related metabolites on salt-sensitive hypertension, and 2) whether blood pressure salt-sensitivity in humans is associated with abnormalities in intermediary metabolism.
Aim 1 of the proposed study will test a novel hypothesis that fumarase insufficiency contributes to salt-sensitive hypertension in SS rats in part by reducing arginine regeneration and nitric oxide (NO) levels in the kidney.
Aim 2 studies are designed to identify metabolites associated with blood pressure in humans on low- or high-sodium intake. The proposed study could provide novel insights into the mechanisms by which fundamental metabolism contributes to hypertension. In addition, it could identify specific metabolic intermediaries that might be important for mediating the effect of dietary salt intake on blood pressure in humans.
| Cowley Jr, Allen W (2018) Chrm3 Gene and M3 Muscarinic Receptors Contribute to Salt-Sensitive Hypertension. Hypertension 72:588-591 |
| Palygin, Oleg; Pochynyuk, Oleh; Staruschenko, Alexander (2018) Distal tubule basolateral potassium channels: cellular and molecular mechanisms of regulation. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 27:373-378 |
| Ilatovskaya, Daria V; Blass, Gregory; Palygin, Oleg et al. (2018) A NOX4/TRPC6 Pathway in Podocyte Calcium Regulation and Renal Damage in Diabetic Kidney Disease. J Am Soc Nephrol 29:1917-1927 |
| Mattson, David L (2018) Heat stress nephropathy and hyperuricemia. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 315:F757-F758 |
| Abais-Battad, Justine M; Lund, Hayley; Fehrenbach, Daniel J et al. (2018) Rag1-null Dahl SS rats reveal that adaptive immune mechanisms exacerbate high protein-induced hypertension and renal injury. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 315:R28-R35 |
| Bukowy, John D; Dayton, Alex; Cloutier, Dustin et al. (2018) Do computers dream of electric glomeruli? Kidney Int 94:635 |
| Spires, Denisha; Ilatovskaya, Daria V; Levchenko, Vladislav et al. (2018) Protective role of Trpc6 knockout in the progression of diabetic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 315:F1091-F1097 |
| Bukowy, John D; Dayton, Alex; Cloutier, Dustin et al. (2018) Region-Based Convolutional Neural Nets for Localization of Glomeruli in Trichrome-Stained Whole Kidney Sections. J Am Soc Nephrol 29:2081-2088 |
| Regal, Jean F; Laule, Connor F; McCutcheon, Luke et al. (2018) The complement system in hypertension and renal damage in the Dahl SS rat. Physiol Rep 6:e13655 |
| Abais-Battad, Justine M; Lund, Hayley; Fehrenbach, Daniel J et al. (2018) Parental Dietary Protein Source and the Role of CMKLR1 in Determining the Severity of Dahl Salt-Sensitive Hypertension. Hypertension :HYPERTENSIONAHA11811994 |
Showing the most recent 10 out of 48 publications
