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Salt sensitivity of blood pressure in NKCC1-deficient mice

¹National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and ²Renal Division, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Submitted 27 June 2008 ; accepted in final form 12 August 2008

NKCC1 is a widely expressed isoform of the Na-2Cl-K cotransporter that mediates several direct and indirect vascular effects and regulates expression and release of renin. In this study, we used NKCC1-deficient (NKCC1^–/–) and wild-type (WT) mice to assess day/night differences of blood pressure (BP), locomotor activity, and renin release and to study the effects of high (8%) or low (0.03%) dietary NaCl intake on BP, activity, and the renin/aldosterone system. On a standard diet, 24-h mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and heart rate determined by radiotelemetry, and their day/night differences, were not different in NKCC1^–/– and WT mice. Spontaneous and wheel-running activities in the active night phase were lower in NKCC1^–/– than WT mice. In NKCC1^–/– mice on a high-NaCl diet, MAP increased by 10 mmHg in the night without changes in heart rate. In contrast, there was no salt-dependent blood pressure change in WT mice. MAP reductions by hydralazine (1 mg/kg) or isoproterenol (10 µg/mouse) were significantly greater in NKCC1^–/– than WT mice. Plasma renin (PRC; ng ANG I·ml^–1·h^–1) and aldosterone (aldo; pg/ml) concentrations were higher in NKCC1^–/– than WT mice (PRC: 3,745 ± 377 vs. 1,245 ± 364; aldo: 763 ± 136 vs. 327 ± 98). Hyperreninism and hyperaldosteronism were found in NKCC1^–/– mice during both day and night. High Na suppressed PRC and aldosterone in both NKCC1^–/– and WT mice, whereas a low-Na diet increased PRC and aldosterone in WT but not NKCC1^–/– mice. We conclude that 24-h MAP and MAP circadian rhythms do not differ between NKCC1^–/– and WT mice on a standard diet, probably reflecting a balance between anti- and prohypertensive factors, but that blood pressure of NKCC1^–/– mice is more sensitive to increases and decreases of Na intake.

radiotelemetry; running wheels; renin; aldosterone; vasodilators; sodium-2 chloride-potassium cotransporter-deficient mice