OBJECTIVE: Central renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in regulating body fluid balance. The present study determined the effect of maternal dehydration on brain expression levels of angiotensinogen, angiotensin II receptor subtypes, and dipsogenic responses in offspring. METHODS: Pregnant rats were deprived of water during late gestation. Expressions of brain angiotensinogen, angiotensin II receptors, and dipsogenic responses were determined. RESULTS: Maternal water deprivation significantly decreased fetal body and brain weight, and body and tail length. Fetal plasma sodium, osmolality, and hematocrit were increased. Both AT(1)R and AT(2)R protein abundance was significantly increased in the fetal brain, associating with increased mRNA levels of AT(1a)R and AT(2)R. Additionally, angiotensinogen mRNA was increased. In adult offspring, prenatal dehydration resulted in significant increases in AT(1)R protein and AT(1a)R mRNA, as well as angiotensinogen mRNA in the forebrain in both males and females. In contrast, AT(2)R mRNA and protein were increased only in males. Prenatal dehydration resulted in a significant increase in intracerebroventricular angiotensin II-induced water intake in male, but not female, offspring. CONCLUSION: The results provided new information that antenatal water deprivation induces a reprogramming of brain RAS and Ang II receptor expression patterns and alters the central Ang II-mediated dipsogenic response in offspring in a sex-dependent manner.
OBJECTIVE: Central renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in regulating body fluid balance. The present study determined the effect of maternal dehydration on brain expression levels of angiotensinogen, angiotensin II receptor subtypes, and dipsogenic responses in offspring. METHODS: Pregnant rats were deprived of water during late gestation. Expressions of brain angiotensinogen, angiotensin II receptors, and dipsogenic responses were determined. RESULTS:Maternal water deprivation significantly decreased fetal body and brain weight, and body and tail length. Fetal plasma sodium, osmolality, and hematocrit were increased. Both AT(1)R and AT(2)R protein abundance was significantly increased in the fetal brain, associating with increased mRNA levels of AT(1a)R and AT(2)R. Additionally, angiotensinogen mRNA was increased. In adult offspring, prenatal dehydration resulted in significant increases in AT(1)R protein and AT(1a)R mRNA, as well as angiotensinogen mRNA in the forebrain in both males and females. In contrast, AT(2)R mRNA and protein were increased only in males. Prenatal dehydration resulted in a significant increase in intracerebroventricular angiotensin II-induced water intake in male, but not female, offspring. CONCLUSION: The results provided new information that antenatal water deprivation induces a reprogramming of brain RAS and Ang II receptor expression patterns and alters the central Ang II-mediated dipsogenic response in offspring in a sex-dependent manner.
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