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  • Title: Stimulation of rat renal medullary Na+/K(+)-ATPase by arginine vasopressin is mediated by the V2 receptor.
    Author: Charlton JA, Baylis PH.
    Journal: J Endocrinol; 1990 Nov; 127(2):213-6. PubMed ID: 2174453.
    Abstract:
    In previous studies, we have demonstrated that 1-10 fmol arginine vasopressin (AVP)/l maximally stimulates the activity of the enzyme Na+/K(+)-ATPase in the rat renal medullary thick ascending limb (MTAL) of Henle's loop after 4 or 10 min of stimulation when measured using a cytochemical bioassay. We have tested the hypothesis that this stimulation is mediated by the V2 receptor in the MTAL. A cytochemical bioassay was used to investigate the effect of specific V1 and V2/V1 antagonists and a synthetic V2 agonist [1-deamino,8-D-arginine]-vasopressin (dDAVP), on the activity of Na+/K(+)-ATPase. There was no effect of the V1 antagonist (1 fmol-1 mumol/l) in inhibiting the activity of Na+/K(+)-ATPase stimulated by 1 fmol AVP/l. In contrast, 100 pmol of the V2/V1 antagonist/l significantly (P less than 0.001) inhibited the stimulation of Na+/K(+)-ATPase activity by 1 fmol AVP/l from 55.5 +/- 4.3 (S.E.M.) to 31.9 +/- 1.6 mean integrated extinction (MIE) after 4 min of stimulation and from 67.0 +/- 3.2 to 36.9 +/- 0.7 MIE after 10 min of stimulation. Similarly, the stimulation of Na+/K(+)-ATPase by 10 fmol dDAVP/l was inhibited by the V2/V1 antagonist from 55.1 +/- 1.0 to 26.1 +/- 0.5 MIE after 4 min of stimulation. We conclude that the stimulation of Na+/K(+)-ATPase by AVP is mediated by the V2 receptor in the rat renal MTAL.
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