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    Cardiovascular effects of water ingestion: an osmosensitive pressor response

    McHugh, Julia
    : https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-09202011-205331
    http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14186
    : 2011-10-19

    Abstract

    Human subjects with impaired baroreflex function cannot buffer rises or falls in blood pressure (BP), thus allowing BP effects of endogenous or environmental stimuli that previously escaped detection to emerge dramatically. Studies in these patients led us to discover that water ingestion induces a robust increase in BP and vascular resistance. This project explores the mechanism of water’s cardiovascular effects using a mouse model of baroreflex impairment. We show that the pharynx, esophagus, and stomach are not critical sites for water’s pressor action, and that plasma volume expansion does not contribute significantly to the rise in BP observed after water ingestion. We also show that the increase in BP after water ingestion is mediated through sympathetic nervous system activation, and appears to be independent of the effects of renin and angiontensin. Genetic knockout mouse models were used to investigate the potential role of several candidate molecular mediators. The osmosensitive transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 channel (TRPV4) was found to be an important component of the response. Although portal osmolality decreased after water ingestion in both wild-type and Trpv4-/- mice, only the wild-type animals showed a pressor response. The same volume of physiological saline failed to elicit an increase in BP, suggesting osmolality as the stimulus. The osmopressor response to water, and TRPV4 thus appear to be new factors now implicated in the physiology of BP regulation.
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