• Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. · Mar 2001

    Fasting downregulates renal water channel AQP2 and causes polyuria.

    • H Amlal, Q Chen, K Habo, Z Wang, and M Soleimani.
    • Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 231 Bethesda Ave., MSB 5502, Cincinnati OH45267-0585, USA. Hassane.Amlal@uc.edu
    • Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. 2001 Mar 1;280(3):F513-23.

    AbstractStarvation causes impairment in the urinary concentrating ability. The mechanism of this defect, however, remains unknown. We tested the possibility that food deprivation might affect the expression and activity of aquaporins (AQP1, 2), thereby impairing renal water reabsorption in the kidney. Rats fasted for 24 h exhibited severe polyuria (urine volume increased from 11 before fasting to 29 ml/24 h after fasting, P < 0.0001) along with failure to concentrate their urine (urine osmolality decreased from 1,485 before fasting to 495 mosmol/kgH(2)O after fasting, P < 0.0001). Refeeding for 24 h returned the urinary concentrating ability back to normal. Northern hybridization and immunoblot analysis demonstrated that fasting was associated with a decrease in AQP2 protein (-80%, P

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