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Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 253: F1129-F1135, 1987;
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AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 253, Issue 6 1129-F1135, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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The contribution of atrial natriuretic factor to acute volume natriuresis in rats

R. W. Barbee and N. C. Trippodo
Division of Research, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana 70121.

To explore the role of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) in acute volume-expansion natriuresis, right atrial pressure (RAP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), rate of urinary sodium excretion (UNaV), and plasma immunoreactive ANF (IR-ANF) were measured in anesthetized, open-chest rats. All groups received 33% blood volume expansion with whole blood in 15 min. RAP was not allowed to increase in one group by using a caval snare. MAP was controlled in a second group with the use of an aortic snare. A third group (RAP-controlled ANF) with control of RAP received rat ANF (99-126) at doses designed to mimic the IR-ANF measured in the MAP-controlled rats. IR-ANF was similar 5 min after blood infusion in rats exhibiting increased RAP (490 +/- 111 pg/ml) and in those without increased RAP but receiving ANF infusion (447 +/- 44 pg/ml); this was also true at 45 min after blood infusion (232 +/- 44 vs. 263 +/- 27 pg/ml). IR-ANF in rats with constant RAP (without ANF infusion) remained low throughout the experiment (61 +/- 10 and 74 +/- 10 pg/ml). UNaV increased only in the MAP-controlled and ANF-infused groups, but peak responses occurred 15-30 min after the onset of volume expansion in the former, and 60-75 min in the latter. Thus, factors other than ANF mostly accounted for the immediate natriuresis after volume expansion, whereas ANF predominated after a delayed period. The results suggest that increased plasma ANF accounted for at least 34% of the observed natriuretic response to acute volume expansion in anesthetized rats.


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