The effect of potassium administration and of dietary potassium deprivation on plasma renin activity and aldosterone excretion has been studied in 10 normal subjects and in 12 hypertensive patients maintained on a constant dietary regimen. Potassium administration reduced plasma renin activity in 18 of 28 studies of both normal and hypertensive subjects. Suppression of renin often occurred desp...

Inactive renin has been isolated from pooled amniotic fluid and purified approximately 642-fold. Prior to activation the isolates had approximately 4% of the activity found after activation. The observation is similar to that reported for inactive renin from chorionic cell culture and suggests a placental origin of amniotic fluid inactive renin. Using plasma from an estrogen-treated woman, reni...

To investigate the importance of plasma renin activity in determining the antihypertensive action of propranolol and of heart rate in guiding propranolol therapy, the effect of a graded oral dose of propranolol on blood pressure, plasma renin and heart rate was studied in 24 men with essential hypertension and differing initial levels of renin activity. Although plasma renin decreased substanti...

Plasma renin activity was determined in normotensive and hypertensive human subjects by a modification of the method of Boucher and co-workers. Simultaneous determination of plasma volume, serum electrolyte concentration and plasma renin activity was performed. The plasma renin activity was normal in essential hypertension and in pheochromocytoma, normal or subnormal in Cushing's syndrome with ...

BACKGROUND Measurement of plasma renin is important for the clinical assessment of hypertensive patients. The most common methods for measuring plasma renin are the plasma renin activity (PRA) assay and the renin immunoassay. The clinical application of renin inhibitor therapy has thrown into focus the differences in information provided by activity assays and immunoassays for renin and proreni...

- pseudohypoaldosteronism (p'ha) is referred to a state of endorgan unresponsiveness to aldosterone. in this article a 12 day - old mule newborn is presented with hyponatremia, hyperkalemia and metabolic acidosis. aldosterone level and plasma renin activity were high. mineralocorticoids had no therapeutic effect, hut normal saline infusion improved electrolyte imbalance. salt-rich diet was succ...

The effects of combined renin inhibition and converting enzyme inhibition on mean arterial pressure and the plasma renin-angiotensin system were studied in conscious rats. In sodium-replete rats the infusion of the renin inhibitor CP71362 (100 micrograms/kg/min) decreased blood pressure by 13 +/- 1 mm Hg (p less than 0.0001), reduced plasma renin activity to undetectable levels, but did not low...

Hirsch, Alan T., John A. Opsahl, Mary M. Lunzer, and Stephen A. Katz. Active renin and angiotensinogen in cardiac interstitial fluid after myocardial infarction. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1818–H1826, 1999.— The renin-angiotensin system promotes cardiac hypertrophy after myocardial infarction. The purpose of this study was to measure renin and angiotensinogen in plasma and ...

OBJECTIVE Activation of the renal renin-angiotensin system in patients with diabetes mellitus appears to contribute to the risk of nephropathy. Recently, it has been recognized than an elevation of prorenin in plasma also provides a strong indication of risk of nephropathy. This study was designed to examine renin-angiotensin system control mechanisms in the patient with diabetes mellitus. ME...

Inactive renin and active renin from human kidney and human plasma were prepared in highly purified forms by three steps of chromatography on Octyl-Sepharose, immunoaffinity chromatography, and pepstatin-amino hexyl Sepharose CL-4B. The inactive renin and active renin from human kidney had molecular weights of 51,000 and 44,000 as measured by a calibrated gel filtration column run with internal...