Coupled sodium-chloride influx across brush border of flounder intestine |
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Authors: | Raymond A Frizzell Philip L Smith Evan Vosburgh Michael Field |
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Institution: | (1) The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, 04672 Salsbury Cove, Maine;(2) Present address: Department of Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 15261 Pittsburgh, Pa.;(3) Present address: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 60637 Chicago, IL |
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Abstract: | Summary Measurements of the unidirectional influxes of Na and Cl from the mucosal solution into the epithelium (J
me
) of flounder intestine under short-circuit conditions reveal the presence of a coupled NaCl influx process at the brush border membrane which appears to be essential for the absorption of these ions.J
me
Cl
andJ
me
Na
were inhibited by replacing Na or Cl, respectively, in the bathing media with nontransported ions which also reduced the short-circuit current (I
sc) to near-zero values. Addition of furosemide to the mucosal solution alone inhibited theI
sc and reducedJ
me
Cl
andJ
me
Na
under control conditions, but not in the absence of Na or Cl, respectively. The reductions inJ
me
Cl
andJ
me
Na
elicited by ion replacement or furosemide were approximately equal, suggesting that the coupled influx mechanism mediates a one-for-one entry of these ions into the cell from the mucosal solution. Furosemide inhibited Cl absorption by reducing the unidirectional Cl flux from mucosa to serosa, consistent with its inhibition of the influx process. As in other epithelia, coupled NaCl influx is inhibited by cyclic AMP, which accounts for the decrease in Cl absorption elicited by cyclic nucleotides. These results support the notion thattranscellular NaCl transport is a neutral process and that the serosa-negative transepithelial electrical potential difference and preponderance of Cl over Na absorption under short-circuit conditions result from dissimilar permeabilities of the paracellular pathway to Na and Cl. |
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