• Critical care medicine · Nov 2008

    Modulation of aquaporin-2/vasopressin2 receptor kidney expression and tubular injury after endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide) challenge.

    • Frederic Chagnon, Vishal S Vaidya, Gerard E Plante, Joseph V Bonventre, Alfred Bernard, Chantal Guindi, and Olivier Lesur.
    • Groupe de Recherche en Physiopathologie Respiratoire, Centre de recherche clinique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
    • Crit. Care Med. 2008 Nov 1;36(11):3054-61.

    ObjectiveSepsis-induced organ dysfunctions remain prevalent and account for >50% of intensive care unit admissions for acute renal failure with a mortality rate nearing 75%. In addition to the fact that the mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of sepsis-related acute renal failure are unclear, the impact on septic-induced acute renal failure of either norepinephrine, a gold-standard vasopressor, and arginine vasopressin, a candidate alternative, are not well understood.DesignRandomized and controlled in vivo study.SettingResearch laboratory and animal facilities.SubjectsAdult rats treated with endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide) and/or vasopressors.InterventionsRats were intraperitoneally injected with lipopolysaccharide (12 mg/kg) or saline and then infused with either saline, 0.375 microg/microL arginine vasopressin, or 32.5 microg/microL norepinephrine for 18 hrs. These vasopressor rates yielded respective targeted blood levels observed in human septic shock.Measurements And Main ResultsRenal function, including glomerular filtration rate and fraction, renal blood flow, aquaporin-2, and arginine vasopressin-2 (V2 receptor) networking, water and salt handling, and urinary protein excretion, were evaluated. After lipopolysaccharide challenge arginine vasopressin infusion: 1) impaired creatinine clearance without affecting renal blood flow, glomerular filtration rate, and fraction but reduced free-water clearance, both of which being partially restored by the V2 receptor antagonist SR-121463B; 2) decreased the recognized ability of arginine vasopressin alone to recruit aquaporin-2 to the apical membrane increase its mRNA expression and urinary release; 3) increased urinary protein content but decreased specific kidney injury molecule-1, and Clara cell protein-16 release (p < 0.05 vs. lipopolysaccharide alone). Conversely, norepinephrine infusion did not add to lipopolysaccharide-induced alteration of urine biochemistry, except for improved creatinine clearance and increased microalbuminuria.ConclusionIn this endotoxic model, dose-targeted arginine vasopressin infusion increased lipopolysaccharide-induced renal dysfunction without affecting renal blood flow and glomerular function, but with particular disruption of aquaporin-2/V2 receptor networking, consecutive decreased salt and water handling ability. This is in clear contrast with norepinephrine infusion and suggests specific arginine vasopressin-induced "tubular epithelial dysfunction."

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