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In order to investigate the role of the renal kallikrein-kinin (K-K) system in normal (NRH) and low renin (LRH) subgroups of essential hypertension (EHT), daily excretions of urinary kallikrein (KAL) quantity and activity, kinin (KIN), total and pre-KAL, and kininase I and II were measured in 21 normotensives (NT), 29 patients with NRH and 16 patients with LRH. The daily excretions of both KAL quantity and activity, total and pre-KAL, and KIN were significantly lower in NRH and LRH than in NT. That of kininase I was significantly higher in NRH and LRH than in NT, but that of kininase II was not. In comparing NRH and LRH, the urinary excretions of KAL activity and KIN were lower in LRH than in NRH, and that of kininase I was higher in LRH than in NRH. The KAL/total KAL ratio did not show any significant difference among NT, NRH and LRH. These findings suggest that the suppression of the renal K-K system in EHT seems to be due to both the decrease of KAL through the pre-KAL synthesis in the kidney and an increase of kininase I activity, but not to the inhibition of conversion from pre-KAL to active KAL and the more obvious suppression of this system in LRH than in NRH may be partly explained by KAL inhibitors and/or increased kininase I activity.
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