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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 18.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2015 Jan 20;21:82–88. doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2015.01.003

Table 1.

Distribution of P2 receptors in the renal vascular and tubular structures.

P2 Receptor Segment
P2X1 vSMC[9,10,11,12], mTAL[22], CD[23]
P2X2 vSMC[10,11] CD[23]
P2X4 vSMC[11,12], PT[8,11], tDL[8,17], tAL[8], mTAL[8,17,21], DT[8,11], OMCD[23,24]
P2X5 PT[11], mTAL[22], DT[21], CCD[11,23], OMCD[11,23], IMCD[11,23]
P2X6 PT[8,11], tDL[8,11,17], tAL[8,11], mTAL[8,11,17], DT[8,11], CCD[23], OMCD[23], IMCD[23]
P2X7 vSMC[12], Glom[11,12]
P2Y1 vSMC[10,11], Glom[11,13], PT[11,16], tDL[21], mTAL[21], OMCD[16]
P2Y2 vSMC[10], Glom[11,13], PT[11,14,16], tDL[14,16], tAL[14,16], mTAL[14,22], cTAL[14], CD[14], CCD[14], IMCD[14,16], OMCD[14,16]
P2Y4 vSMC[9], Glom[11,13], PT[11,16], tAL[16], mTAL[21], CCD[23], OMCD[23], IMCD[23]
P2Y6 Glom[11,13], PT[15], mTAL[15,22], cTAL[15], CCD[15,23], OMCD[15,23], IMCD[23]

CCD, cortical collecting duct; CD, collecting duct; cTAL, cortical thick ascending limb; DT, distal tubule; Glom, Glomerulus; IMCD, inner medullary collecting duct; mTAL, medullary thick ascending limb, OMCD, outer medullary collecting duct, PT, proximal tubule, tAL, thin ascending limb; tDL, thin descending limb; vSMC, vascular smooth muscle cell. There is little to no expression reported for P2X3 and P2Y11–14 receptor expression in the kidney.