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Center for Clinical Pharmacology, Departments of 1 Pharmacology and 2 Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261; and 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinic for Endocrinology, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
Adenosine exerts physiologically significant receptor-mediated effects on renal function. For example, adenosine participates in the regulation of preglomerular and postglomerular vascular resistances, glomerular filtration rate, renin release, epithelial transport, intrarenal inflammation, and growth of mesangial and vascular smooth muscle cells. It is important, therefore, to understand the mechanisms that generate extracellular adenosine within the kidney. In addition to three "classic" pathways of adenosine biosynthesis, contemporary studies are revealing a novel mechanism for renal adenosine production termed the "extracellular cAMP-adenosine pathway." The extracellular cAMP-adenosine pathway is defined as the egress of cAMP from cells during activation of adenylyl cyclase, followed by the extracellular conversion of cAMP to adenosine by the serial actions of ecto-phosphodiesterase and ecto-5'-nucleotidase. This mechanism of extracellular adenosine production may provide hormonal control of adenosine levels in the cell-surface biophase in which adenosine receptors reside. Tight coupling of the site of adenosine production to the site of adenosine receptors would permit a low-capacity mechanism of adenosine biosynthesis to have a large impact on adenosine receptor activation. The purposes of this review are to summarize the physiological roles of adenosine in the kidney; to describe the classic pathways of renal adenosine biosynthesis; to review the evidence for the existence of the extracellular cAMP-adenosine pathway; and to describe possible physiological roles of the extracellular cAMP-adenosine pathway, with particular emphasis on the kidney.
cAMP egress; ecto-5'-nucleotidase; phosphodiesterase; adenosine receptors; kidney; vascular smooth muscle
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