The effect of ethanol on ion transport in frog skin |
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Authors: | June D Boyett John T Van Bruggen |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, Oreg. 97201 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Frog skin has been used as a model epithelial sodium-transporting system to study the effect of ethanol on ion transport. Treatment of the outside of frog skin with ethanol decreased the net sodium transport due to inhibition of 22Na+ influx. Ethanol did not alter sodium outflux when bathing the outside of the skin. The inhibition was in proportion to the concentration of ethanol, 0.25 M resulting in 50% inhibition. The chloride permeability of the skin was increased several-fold when the skin was exposed to ethanol in either bathing solution. With 0.4 M ethanol in the inner bathing solution, all the unidirectional fluxes of Na+ and Cl? were increased. The movement of Cl? was evaluated by comparison of Cl? flux with urea flux, since urea is thought to move passively across frog skin via an extracellular (shunt) pathway. Chloride flux was increased to a greater extent than urea flux. These experiments indicate that ethanol affects chloride permeability beyond an increase in extracellular ion flow and independent of its effect on Na+ transport. |
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