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The effect of diets adequate and deficient in calcium on blood pressures and the activities of intestinal and kidney plasma membrane enzymes in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Peter Blakeborough ,
Sheila G. Neville  and
Brian A. Rolls
Peter Blakeborough
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading Laboratory, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
Sheila G. Neville
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading Laboratory, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
Brian A. Rolls
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading Laboratory, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
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Basolateral and brush-border membranes were prepared from the intestines and kidneys of spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and normotensive (WKY) rats fed on a calcium-adequate diet and assayed for their enzyme activities. In intestinal basolateral membranes the activities of Na+ K+-ATPase (EC 3.6.1.37) Ca2+-ATPase (EC 3.6.1.38) and alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) were lower in SHR rats when compared with WKY rats, whilst 5'-nucleotidase (EC3.1.3.5) (a marker for basolateral membranes) was unaffected. In kidney basolateral membranes all enzymes were similar in activity in SHR and WKY rats. In intestinal brush-border membranes the activities of Ca2+-ATPase and alkaline phosphatase were lower in SHR rats when compared with WKY rats, whilst microvillus aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.2) (a marker for brush-border membranes) was unaffected. In kidney brush-border membranes all enzymes were similar in activity in SHR and WKY rats. The blood pressures of the SHR rats were considerably higher than those of the WKY rats. When SHR rats were fed on a Ca-deficient diet the activities of Na+K+-ATPase, Ca2+-ATPase and alkaline phosphatase in basolateral membranes and Ca2+-ATPase and alkaline phosphatase in brush-border membranes were all increased in the intestine when compared with SHR rats fed on a Ca-adequate diet. The equivalent enzymes in the kidneys of SHR rats, and the intestines and kidneys of WKY rats, were not affected by altering the Ca in the diet. The blood pressures of SHR rats fed on a Ca-deficient diet were higher than in those fed on a Ca-adequate diet. Blood pressures of WKY rats were not affected by altering the diet in this way. The results indicate that the absorption of Ca by active mechanisms may be reduced in SHR rats compared with WKY rats. Changing the level of Ca in the diet modified both blood pressure and the activities of enzymes which catalyse active Ca transport. The implications of these results to the aetiology, and possible nutritional treatment, of essential hypertension are discussed.

Keywords

Brush-border membraneCalciumHypertensionRat
Type
Mineral Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 65 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1990

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