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Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol 2, 1171-1177, Copyright © 1992 by American Society of Nephrology

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Growth hormone and renal glutamine and glutamate handling

TC Welbourne, K Horton and MJ Cronin
Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 33932.

Growth hormone administration effects a positive nitrogen balance in part by recycling glutamine nitrogen as glutamate at the expense of ureagenesis. The study presented here focuses on the response of the isolated perfused hypophysectomized rat kidney to acute growth hormone administration during infusions of either glutamine or glutamate. Growth hormone at 50 nM acutely decreases the renal utilization of both glutamine and glutamate while enhancing reabsorption of the latter. During glutamine infusions of either 1,000 or 500 nmol/min, growth hormone markedly reduced net glutamine utilization by 55% at the high loads and reversed utilization to release at the lower load; associated with decreased glutamine utilization was reduced ammonium production and increased glutamate release. Although glutamine reabsorption was unchanged, glutamate reabsorption increased and NH4+ excretion decreased. During glutamate infusion of 180 nmol/min, growth hormone reduced glutamate utilization 66%, the residual utilization matching increased glutamate reabsorption was associated with enhanced bicarbonate reabsorption and a redistribution of NH4+ release into the urine; all three responses were eliminated by amiloride. These responses to growth hormone are consonant with reduced glutamate oxidation underlying decreased glutamine utilization and accelerated luminal Na+-H+ exchange mediating luminal transport, events that are conceivably interrelated.


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