Active and inactive kallikrein or a kallikrein-like enzyme are found in the aorta, vena cava, and tail artery and veins of the rat. We studied the concentration of vascular kininogenase in rats with one-kidney, one clip renovascular hypertension and in unilaterally nephrectomized normotensive rats. Six weeks after surgery, active and total vascular kininogenase activity (active plus trypsin-act...

One-kidney, one clip (1K1C) hypertension is often associated with an expanded plasma volume and (once the arterial clip is removed) with natriuresis. Blood pressure (BP), atrial and plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), hematocrit, and renal glomerular ANF receptors were therefore studied in 1K1C rats and in their normotensive uninephrectomized controls before and after uncl...

The activity of the sympathetic nervous system, as measured by levels of plasma and cardiac catecholamines and catecholamine metabolites and the function of cardiac alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors, was evaluated at 3 days and 4 weeks after induction of one-kidney, one clip hypertension (1K1C) in the rat. At 3 days, the plasma level of norepinephrine (NE) was lower in the 1K1C group than th...

Exchangeable sodium (NaE), plasma active renin concentration and blood pressure were measured in rats with a sole remaining kidney before and after the development of hypertension induced by clipping of the single renal artery and again after unclipping. Control observations were made in sham-clipped and sham-unclipped uninephrectomized rats. Renal artery clipping caused hypertension and expans...

The present study examined the time course of changes in baroreceptor reflex function by means of sigmoidal curve-fitting analysis in conscious, unrestrained renovascular one-kidney, one clip (1K1C) rats at 1, 3, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days after renal artery clipping. The reflex heart rate responses were elicited by alternate intravenous bolus injections of phenylephrine (change, +5 to +50 mm Hg) a...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS The effectiveness of the prophylactic clip for the prevention of postpolypectomy bleeding in pedunculated colonic polyps has not been confirmed. The aim of this prospective, randomized study was to compare the efficacy of prophylactic clip and endoloop application in the prevention of postpolypectomy bleeding in large pedunculated polyps. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total...

Intrarenal adenosine concentration is threefold greater in the one-kidney, one clip hypertensive rat compared with normotensive animals. Since exogenously administered adenosine may increase renal blood flow by direct vasodilation, inhibition of renin release, or prejunctional interruption of adrenergic neurotransmission, these studies examined whether endogenous intrarenal adenosine maintains ...

Sympathovagal balance and baroreflex control of heart rate (HR) were evaluated during the development (1 and 4 wk) of one-kidney, one-clip (1K1C) hypertension in conscious mice. The development of cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis was also examined. Overall variability of systolic arterial pressure (AP) and HR in the time domain and baroreflex sensitivity were calculated from basal recordings. M...

This study was designed to examine the effects of diets that alter prostaglandin biosynthesis on the blood pressure in one-kidney, one clip rats with established hypertension and to compare the prostanoid generating capacity of hypertensive animals with those that remained normotensive. Rats attaining blood pressures of at least 180 mm Hg within 8 weeks of nephrectomy and renal artery stenosis ...

To assess the role of the vascular angiotensin II-generating system in one-kidney, one clip hypertension, we determined the angiotensin converting enzyme activity in plasma and vascular tissues and examined the pressor response to angiotensin II, angiotensin I, and tetradecapeptide renin substrate in isolated mesenteric arteries from one-kidney, one clip hypertensive rats 7 and 30 days after cl...