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Hypertension Unit, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4W7
Submitted 14 August 2002 ; accepted in final form 1 July 2003
To assess effects of dietary salt on brain AT1 receptor densities, 4-wk-old Dahl salt-sensitive (Dahl S) and salt-resistant (Dahl R) rats were fed a regular (101 µmol Na/g) or high (1,370 µmol Na/g)-salt diet for 1, 2, or 4 wk. AT1 receptors were assessed by quantitative in vitro autoradiography. AT1 receptor densities did not differ significantly between strains on the regular salt diet. The high-salt diet for 1 or 2 wk increased AT1 receptor binding by 21–64% in the Dahl S rats in the subfornical organ, median preoptic nucleus, paraventricular nucleus, and suprachiasmatic nucleus. No changes were noted in the Dahl R rats. After 4 wk on a high-salt diet, increases in AT1 receptor binding persisted in Dahl S rats but were now also noted in the paraventricular nucleus, median preoptic nucleus, and suprachiasmatic nucleus of Dahl R rats. At 4 wk on the diet, intracerebroventricular captopril caused clear decreases in blood pressure only in the Dahl S on the high-salt diet but caused largely similar relative increases in brain AT1 receptor densities in Dahl S and R on the high-salt diet versus regular salt diet. These data demonstrate that high salt intake rapidly (within 1 wk) increases AT1 receptor densities in specific brain nuclei in Dahl S and later (by 4 wk) also in Dahl R rats. Because the brain renin-angiotensin system only contributes to salt-induced hypertension in Dahl S rats, further studies are needed to determine which of the salt-induced increases in brain AT1 receptor densities contribute to the hypertension and which to other aspects of body homeostasis.
brain renin-angiotensin system; salt-induced hypertension; angiotensin II; autoradiography
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