Department of Biochemistry, School of Dentistry, Showa University, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142, Japan
Abstract:
Ethylisopropyl-amiloride is 100 times more potent than amiloride for inhibiting the Na+/H+ exchanger of 3T3 fibroblasts, chick skeletal muscle cells and chick cardiac cells. Half-maximum effects, measured at 3 mM external Na+ are observed at 20-100 nM and 5 microM for ethylisopropyl-amiloride and amiloride respectively. As previously observed for amiloride, the effect of ethylisopropyl-amiloride is antagonized by external Na+ ions.