Calcium and Magnesium: Low Passive Permeability and Tubular Secretion in the Mouse Medullary Thick Ascending Limb of Henle's Loop (MTAL) |
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Authors: | M Wittner E Desfleurs S Pajaud G Moine C de Rouffignac A Di Stefano |
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Institution: | (1) Service de Biologie Cellulaire, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA Saclay, 91911 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, FR |
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Abstract: | Recent studies from our laboratory have shown that in the mouse and rat nephron Ca2+ and Mg2+ are not reabsorbed in the medullary part of the thick ascending limb (mTAL) of Henle's loop. The aim of the present study
was to investigate whether the absence of transepithelial Ca2+ and Mg2+ transport in the mouse mTAL is due to its relative low permeability to divalent cations. For this purpose, transepithelial
ion net fluxes were measured by electron probe analysis in isolated perfused mouse mTAL segments, when the transepithelial
potential difference (PDte.) was varied by chemical voltage clamp, during active NaCl transport inhibition by luminal furosemide. The results show that
transepithelial Ca2+ and Mg2+ net fluxes in the mTAL are not driven by the transepithelial PDte. At zero voltage, a small but significant net secretion of Ca2+ into the tubular lumen was observed. With a high lumen-positive PDte generated by creating a transepithelial bath-to-lumen NaCl concentration gradient, no Ca2+ and Mg2+ reabsorption was noted; instead significant and sustained Ca2+ and Mg2+ net secretion occurred. When a lumen-positive PDte was generated in the absence of apical furosemide, but in the presence of a transepithelial bath-to-lumen NaCl concentration gradient, a huge Ca2+ net secretion and a lesser Mg2+ net secretion, not modified by ADH, were observed. Replacement of Na+ by K+ in the lumen perfusate induced, in the absence of PDte changes, important but reversible net secretions of Ca2+ and Mg2+. In conclusion, our results indicate that the passive permeability of the mouse mTAL to divalent cations is very low and
not influenced by ADH. This nephron segment can secrete Ca2+ and Mg2+ into the luminal fluid under conditions which elicit large lumen-positive transepithelial potential differences. Given the
impermeability of this epithelium to Ca2+ and Mg2+, the secretory processes would appear to be of cellular origin.
Received: 30 January 1996/Revised: 24 April 1996 |
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Keywords: | : Medullary thick ascending limb — Ca2+ transport — Mg2+ transport — Electron microprobe analysis — Passive permeability — ADH |
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