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Dissociation of urinary kallikrein activity and salt and water excretion in the rat. 1986

D M Pollock, and M I Butterfield, and J L Ader, and W J Arendshorst

Experiments were designed to examine the relationship, if any, between urinary kallikrein activity (amidolytic assay) and sodium and water excretion in 12-wk-old Munich-Wistar rats. Five groups of animals were studied: euvolemic, saline-expanded and water-loaded anesthetized rats, and euvolemic and saline-expanded conscious restrained rats. Following surgery, animals were allowed to stabilize (60-180 min) and reach a steady-state urine flow. By design, basal sodium and/or water excretion varied markedly among groups as a function of hydration state. Group means for sodium excretion and urine flow ranged from 0.8 to 12.4 mu eq/min and 6 to 112 microliter/min, respectively. In contrast, neither active nor total urinary kallikrein activity differed significantly among the five groups. In anesthetized euvolemic rats, intravenous administration of aprotinin produced a dose-dependent decrease in urinary kallikrein activity. The greatest inhibition of 93 +/- 3% (active) and 72 +/- 10% (total) was observed with a dose of 5,000 kallikrein inhibiting units (KIU)/kg and 1,000 KIU X kg-1 X min-1. This dose produced a significant decrease in active and total kallikrein activity in each group (P less than 0.001). However, sodium and water excretion were unchanged in aprotinin-treated rats and similar to values in vehicle-treated time-control groups. Linear regression analysis revealed no significant correlations between urinary kallikrein activity and sodium excretion or urine flow either among or within groups. These results indicate that urinary kallikrein activity is not related to acute sodium and water homeostasis in anesthetized or conscious rats.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007610	Kallikreins	Proteolytic enzymes from the serine endopeptidase family found in normal blood and urine. Specifically, Kallikreins are potent vasodilators and hypotensives and increase vascular permeability and affect smooth muscle. They act as infertility agents in men. Three forms are recognized, PLASMA KALLIKREIN (EC 3.4.21.34), TISSUE KALLIKREIN (EC 3.4.21.35), and PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN (EC 3.4.21.77).	Kallikrein,Kininogenase,Callicrein,Dilminal,Kallidinogenase,Kalliginogenase,Kallikrein A,Kallikrein B',Kallikrein Light Chain,Kinin-Forming Enzyme,Padutin,alpha-Kallikrein,beta-Kallikrein,beta-Kallikrein B,Enzyme, Kinin-Forming,Kinin Forming Enzyme,Light Chain, Kallikrein,alpha Kallikrein,beta Kallikrein,beta Kallikrein B
D007611	Aprotinin	A single-chain polypeptide derived from bovine tissues consisting of 58 amino-acid residues. It is an inhibitor of proteolytic enzymes including CHYMOTRYPSIN; KALLIKREIN; PLASMIN; and TRYPSIN. It is used in the treatment of HEMORRHAGE associated with raised plasma concentrations of plasmin. It is also used to reduce blood loss and transfusion requirements in patients at high risk of major blood loss during and following open heart surgery with EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION. (Reynolds JEF(Ed): Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia (electronic version). Micromedex, Inc, Englewood, CO, 1995)	BPTI, Basic Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor,Basic Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor,Bovine Kunitz Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor,Kallikrein-Trypsin Inactivator,Kunitz Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor,Trypsin Inhibitor, Basic, Pancreatic,Trypsin Inhibitor, Kunitz, Pancreatic,Antilysin,Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor,Contrical,Contrykal,Dilmintal,Iniprol,Kontrikal,Kontrykal,Pulmin,Traskolan,Trasylol,Zymofren,Inactivator, Kallikrein-Trypsin,Kallikrein Trypsin Inactivator
D007668	Kidney	Body organ that filters blood for the secretion of URINE and that regulates ion concentrations.	Kidneys
D011919	Rats, Inbred Strains	Genetically identical individuals developed from brother and sister matings which have been carried out for twenty or more generations or by parent x offspring matings carried out with certain restrictions. This also includes animals with a long history of closed colony breeding.	August Rats,Inbred Rat Strains,Inbred Strain of Rat,Inbred Strain of Rats,Inbred Strains of Rats,Rat, Inbred Strain,August Rat,Inbred Rat Strain,Inbred Strain Rat,Inbred Strain Rats,Inbred Strains Rat,Inbred Strains Rats,Rat Inbred Strain,Rat Inbred Strains,Rat Strain, Inbred,Rat Strains, Inbred,Rat, August,Rat, Inbred Strains,Rats Inbred Strain,Rats Inbred Strains,Rats, August,Rats, Inbred Strain,Strain Rat, Inbred,Strain Rats, Inbred,Strain, Inbred Rat,Strains, Inbred Rat
D001834	Body Water	Fluids composed mainly of water found within the body.	Water, Body
D004231	Diuresis	An increase in the excretion of URINE. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)	Diureses
D004305	Dose-Response Relationship, Drug	The relationship between the dose of an administered drug and the response of the organism to the drug.	Dose Response Relationship, Drug,Dose-Response Relationships, Drug,Drug Dose-Response Relationship,Drug Dose-Response Relationships,Relationship, Drug Dose-Response,Relationships, Drug Dose-Response
D000758	Anesthesia	A state characterized by loss of feeling or sensation. This depression of nerve function is usually the result of pharmacologic action and is induced to allow performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012964	Sodium	A member of the alkali group of metals. It has the atomic symbol Na, atomic number 11, and atomic weight 23.	Sodium Ion Level,Sodium-23,Ion Level, Sodium,Level, Sodium Ion,Sodium 23