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Effect of osmolality on cytosolic free calcium and aldosterone secretion

W. Wang, N. Hayama, T. V. Robinson, R. E. Kramer and E. G. Schneider
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163.

Alterations in extracellular osmolality have powerful inverse effects on basal and potassium- and angiotensin-stimulated aldosterone secretion. With the use of bovine glomerulosa cells grown in primary culture, the effects of alterations in osmolality on cytosolic calcium concentration ([Ca2+]c), efflux and uptake of 45Ca2+, and aldosterone secretion were determined. Alterations in osmolality, independent of sodium concentration, have inverse effects on aldosterone secretion, which are correlated with simultaneous changes in [Ca2+]c measured using fura-2. Reductions in osmolality cause dose-dependent biphasic increases in [Ca2+]c different from the monophasic increases in [Ca2+]c produced by increases in potassium concentration. Like potassium- and angiotensin-stimulated increases in [Ca2+]c, hypotonically induced increases in [Ca2+]c are associated with an increase in 45Ca2+ efflux. Reductions in osmolality also increased the uptake of 45Ca2+, an effect apparent at 2 min and persistent for at least 30 min. In the absence of extracellular calcium, reductions in osmolality, as increases in potassium concentration but not angiotensin, fail to increase [Ca2+]c, efflux of 45Ca2+, or aldosterone secretion. In conclusion, osmolality-induced alterations in aldosterone secretion are associated with parallel changes in [Ca2+]c, effects caused by alteration in the influx of extracellular calcium. On the basis of these and previous studies, we hypothesize that osmolality affects calcium influx by activating voltage-dependent or stretch-activated calcium channels.

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