Author:
DeFronzo R. A.,Stanton B.,Klein-Robbenhaar G.,Giebisch G.
Abstract
The effect of epinephrine on renal potassium excretion was examined in the rat. In group I KCl was infused acutely to increase plasma K (PK) by 2.0 meq/liter; urinary K excretion (UKV) rose by 1.22 mueq/min. In group II rats, which received a similar dose of KCl but with epinephrine, the increase in PK (delta = 0.8 meq/liter, P less than 0.001) was blunted and UKV was reduced (delta = 0.23 mueq/min, P less than 0.001). To determine whether the reduction in UKV resulted from the smaller increase in PK or from a direct action of epinephrine on renal K transport, a third group of animals received a lower dose of KCl. Despite similar PK levels, the epinephrine group excreted significantly less K in the urine (0.61 vs. 0.93 mueq/min). In group IV propranolol was infused with KCl; UKV was modestly increased. The effects of epinephrine on UKV were unrelated to changes in glomerular filtration rate, urine flow, or UNaV. Micropuncture results showed that at comparable PK levels epinephrine had no direct effect on K secretion by the distal tubule but indirectly inhibited K secretion in this nephron segment by reducing PK. In addition, epinephrine reduced K addition at tubular sites beyond the late distal tubule, most likely in the collecting tubule.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
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