Background and Purpose Hyponatremia is a common complication after subarachnoid hemorrhage. In this study we investigated the relations among hyponatremia, plasma natriuretic peptides, and antidiuretic hormone concentrations after subarachnoid hemorrhage. Methods Blood samples for radioimmunoassay measurement of plasma brain natriuretic peptide-like immunoreactivity, atrial natriuretic peptide-...

1. Eleven patients on chronic maintenance dialysis were investigated before and after intravenous bolus injection of atrial natriuretic peptide (2 micrograms/kg body weight). 2. Mean blood pressure was reduced to the same extent in the uraemic patients as in 11 healthy subjects, with a nadir 3 min after the atrial natriuretic peptide injection at which time mean blood pressure was reduced by 13...

normal healthy children.4 The association between the fall in atrial natriuretic peptide concentration and decrease in body weight after volume reduction by haemodialysis suggests that in children volume expansion releases atrial natriuretic peptide. In preterm infants plasma atrial natriuretic peptide concentrations are considerably raised on the second day of life and decrease to normal withi...

Basal atrial natriuretic peptide levels and the response to exogenous atrial natriuretic peptide are influenced by dietary sodium intake. In view of interest in the therapeutic potential of elevating plasma atrial natriuretic peptide by inhibition of neutral endopeptidase 24.11, we studied the renal and hormonal effects of 200 mg of the oral endopeptidase 24.11 inhibitor candoxatril in eight pa...

Sodium metabolism by the kidney is accomplished by an intricate interaction between signals from extrarenal and intrarenal sources and between antinatriuretic and natriuretic factors. Renal dopamine plays a central role in this interactive network. The natriuretic hormones, such as the atrial natriuretic peptide, mediate some of their effects by affecting the renal dopaminergic system. Renal do...

Little information is available about the potential role of brain (type B) natriuretic peptide in patients with acute myocardial infarction. We therefore analyzed peptide levels, measured at discharge from our coronary care unit, in 56 patients admitted with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. We examined peptide concentrations in the light of different features in our patients, and fou...

Background While it has long been know that phosphorylation of the kinase homology domain is a key regulatory mechanism of natriuretic peptide receptors, no biochemical proof for individual phosphorylation sites has been reported. Here, we describe biochemical verification of previously identified phosphorylation sites in both natriuretic peptide receptor A (NPR-A) and natriuretic peptide recep...