Control of renal Na+ excretion by heme oxygenase.
Control of renal Na+ excretion by heme oxygenase.
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血红素加氧酶控制肾钠排泄。
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10.1161/01.hyp.0000250089.99513.f6
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2007
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Pallone,ThomasL
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Pallone,ThomasL
In the current issue of Hypertension, Li et al provide evidence that supports acute and chronic roles for renal medullary heme oxygenase (HO) in the regulation of salt and water excretion by the kidney. 1 Their findings may be summarized as follows: HO activity and expression rises with medullary axis; inner medulla outer medulla cortex. Acute elevation of renal perfusion pressure (RPP) induces a rise in the medullary tissue carbon monoxide (CO) and NO concentrations accompanied by natriuresis. Chromium mesoporphyrin (CrMP) inhibits the HO activity of medullary homogenates and, when infused into the renal interstitium, reduces both basal-and RPP-stimulated CO, NO levels, and salt and water excretion. Li and colleagues carried their investigation an important step further by examining chronic interstitial infusion of CrMP in rats maintained on either a 1% or 8% NaCl diet. Those on a 1% NaCl diet experienced a transient, 1-week elevation of mean arterial pressure of 5 to 10 mmHg. By comparison, on an 8% NaCl diet, CrMP induced a sustained and impressive rise of 25 to 30 mm Hg. Finally, expression and activity of inducible HO-1 but not HO-2 was increased by the high salt diet. The effectiveness of basal HO blockade shows a tonic effect of the products of heme degradation on epithelial Na reabsorption. Moreover, HO inhibition by CrMP blunts the diuresis and natriuresis associated with an acute increase in RPP; it blocks “pressure natriuresis”(Figure). These fundamental findings point to the importance of HO in the regulation of Na balance and raise many questions. What pathway connects RPP to HO activity? How does HO enhance salt and water excretion and affect blood pressure? What insights do these findings provide into the mechanisms that underlie pressure natriuresis? Because HO products arise from heme degradation, do pathways exist that increase availability of that substrate? The myriad effects of HO have been traced to the antioxidant and vasodilatory properties of its products. 2–4 Reduction of O2 yields reactive oxygen species (ROS) including superoxide anion (O2) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which, in turn generate hypochlorous acid and hydroxyl radicals. O2 consumes NO, reducing its availability as a vasodilator, producing peroxynitrite, a species that has independent injurious effects through protein nitrosylation. ROS are generated by endogenous pathways, including mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, activities of various O2-utilizing enzymes, auto-oxidation of cysteine, substrate limited activity of NO synthase, and, perhaps most importantly, through the regulated activity of NADPH oxidase. Antioxidant systems that remove ROS include superoxide dismutases (SOD), which converts O2 to H2O2, and catalase that convert H2O2 to water. Free radical scavengers such as vitamin C and E also limit ROS. In the latter context, HO, through its generation of the endogenous antioxidant bilirubin, has been recognized to play a prominent role. In addition to effects on salt and water excretion, renal HO-1 activity favors protection from ischemia-reperfusion injury, 3 inflammatory diseases, and transplant rejection. 4HO-1 and HO-2 are regulated microsomal and constitutive mitochondrial enzymes, respectively, that degrade heme to form CO and biliverdin. CO, like NO, signals through cGMP to favor vasodilation and saliuresis. Biliverdin is converted by biliverdin reductace to bilirubin, an effective ROS scavenger. Bilirubin exerts further antioxidant effects by inhibiting the activities of NADPH oxidase and protein kinase C. In the renal medulla, HO-1 is under the transcriptional control of hypoxia inducible factor α1 (HIF1α), as …