AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 251, Issue 5 904-F910, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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31P-NMR in vivo measurement of renal intracellular pH: effects of acidosis and K+ depletion in rats

W. R. Adam, A. P. Koretsky and M. W. Weiner

Renal intracellular pH (pHi) was measured in vivo from the chemical shift (sigma) of inorganic phosphate (Pi), obtained by 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). pH was calculated from the difference between sigma Pi and sigma alpha-ATP. Changes of sigma Pi closely correlated with changes of sigma monophosphoesters; this supports the hypothesis that the pH determined from sigma Pi represents pHi. Renal pH in control rats was 7.39 +/- 0.04 (n = 8). This is higher than pHi of muscle and brain in vivo, suggesting that renal Na-H antiporter activity raises renal pHi. To examine the relationship between renal pH and ammoniagenesis, rats were subjected to acute (less than 24 h) and chronic (4-7 days) metabolic acidosis, acute (20 min) and chronic (6-8 days) respiratory acidosis, and dietary potassium depletion (7-21 days). Acute metabolic and respiratory acidosis produced acidification of renal pHi. Chronic metabolic acidosis (arterial blood pH, 7.26 +/- 0.02) lowered renal pHi to 7.30 +/- 0.02, but chronic respiratory acidosis (arterial blood pH, 7.30 +/- 0.05) was not associated with renal acidosis (pH, 7.40 +/- 0.04). At a similar level of blood pH, pHi was higher in chronic metabolic acidosis than in acute metabolic acidosis, suggesting an adaptive process that raises pHi. Potassium depletion (arterial blood pH, 7.44 +/- 0.05) was associated with a marked renal acidosis (renal pH, 7.17 +/- 0.02). There was a direct relationship between renal pH and cardiac K+. Rapid partial repletion with KCl (1 mmol) significantly increased renal pHi from 7.14 +/- 0.03 to 7.31 +/- 0.01.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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