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High-salt intake and the renal expression of amino acid transporters in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Institute of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Porto, Portugal

Submitted 25 November 2006 ; accepted in final form 22 January 2007

This study evaluated in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) the response to salt loading of the renal dopaminergic system and transcript abundance of Na⁺-independent (LAT1 and LAT2) and Na⁺-dependent (ASCT2 and B⁰AT1) amino acid transporters potentially involved in renal tubular uptake of L-DOPA. Rats were fed normal (NS)- or high (HS; 1% saline as drinking water)-salt intake for 24 h. Transcript abundance of amino acid transporters was age dependent, differently regulated in WKY and SHR and responded differently to salt intake. HS intake similarly increased urinary dopamine in 4-wk-old SHR and WKY. At 12 wk of age, HS intake increased urinary dopamine in SHR, but not in WKY. Changes in urinary dopamine paralleled changes in the uptake of L-DOPA in isolated renal tubules from 4- and 12-wk-old WKY and SHR on NS and HS intake. At 12 wk of age, HS intake was accompanied by decreases in LAT1 and LAT2 transcript abundance in WKY and SHR. ASCT2 and B⁰AT1 expression was significantly decreased in both 4- and 12-wk-old WKY and in 4-wk-old SHR on HS intake. By contrast, HS intake increased ASCT2 and B⁰AT1 expression in 12-wk-old SHR. It is concluded that salt-sensitive mechanisms influence LAT1, LAT2, ASCT2, and B⁰AT1 gene transcription. Differences in urinary dopamine and tubular uptake of L-DOPA between WKY and SHR during HS intake, namely in 12-wk-old animals, may result from increases in the ASCT2 and B⁰AT1 mRNA levels and less pronounced decreases in LAT2 expression.

LAT2; ASCT2; B⁰AT1; kidney; hypertension

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