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  • Title: Compared effects of a low and a high sodium diet on the renal and urinary concentration and activity of kallikrein in normal rats.
    Author: Bascands JL, Girolami JP, Pecher C, Moatti JP, Manuel Y, Suc JM.
    Journal: J Hypertens; 1987 Jun; 5(3):311-5. PubMed ID: 3649386.
    Abstract:
    Different sodium intakes may affect or alter the urinary excretion of renal kallikrein. We have compared the renal and the urinary effects of sodium depletion and sodium loading with 1% NaCl on total kallikrein, using a direct radio-immunoassay against immunoreactive kallikrein and on active kallikrein assessed by a kininogenase assay with a kinin radio-immunoassay. Sodium depletion resulted in an increase in renal and urinary excretion of both the immunoreactive kallikrein and the kininogenase activity. Sodium loading resulted in a slight but significant decrease in renal tissue immunoreactive kallikrein content without any change in the kininogenase activity, while the urinary excretion of the kininogenase activity was greatly increased and the urinary immunoreactive kallikrein remained steady. This sodium depletion induces consistent effects at the renal and urinary level, resulting probably from a stimulation of biosynthesis. However, during sodium loading, renal and urinary measurements of kallikrein are dissociated. Furthermore, kininogenase activity and immunoreactive kallikrein are not correlated in either of the two studied compartments. Thus sodium loading seems to induce independent effects at the renal and urinary levels, possibly resulting from different mechanisms.
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