Affiliation:
1. Departments of Internal Medicine and Physiology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas 79430
Abstract
We examined whether dietary acid that increases net acid excretion (NAE) without measurably decreasing plasma pH or total CO2(tCO2) causes net acid retention. Control rats drinking distilled H2O were compared with those drinking 40 mM (NH4)2SO4, 40 mM Na2SO4, or drinking Na2SO4and given aldosterone (Na2SO4+ Aldo) to increase NAE without dietary acid. Systemic plasma tCO2 increased in Na2SO4+ Aldo animals, but systemic and stellate vessel plasma tCO2 and pH were not different from control among remaining groups. NAE increased in (NH4)2SO4and Na2SO4+ Aldo but not in Na2SO4animals. Blood base excess (BBE) decreased compared with its respective baseline in (NH4)2SO4(−0.44 ± 0.06 vs. 0.66 ± 0.04 μmol/ml; P < 0.01, paired t-test), increased in Na2SO4+ Aldo (0.79 ± 0.05 vs. 0.61 ± 0.03 μmol/ml; P < 0.04, paired t-test), but was unchanged in Na2SO4animals. Renal cortical H+ content assessed by microdialysis of the renal cortex in situ increased in (NH4)2SO4, decreased in Na2SO4+ Aldo, but was unchanged in Na2SO4animals. The data show that dietary acid sufficient to increase NAE without decreasing plasma tCO2 or pH nevertheless decreases BBE and increases renal cortical acid content, consistent with net acid retention.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
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