SATURATION KINETICS OF SODIUM EFFLUX ACROSS ISOLATED FROG SKIN
SATURATION KINETICS OF SODIUM EFFLUX ACROSS ISOLATED FROG SKIN
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DOI:
10.1152/ajplegacy.1976.231.4.995
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
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通讯作者:
MULLEN, TL
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作者:
BIBER, TUL;MULLEN, TL
Measurement of Na efflux across the frog skin epithelium from the serosal side to the outside .**GRAPHIC**. in a new chamber specifically designed to avoid edge damage showed that .**GRAPHIC**. exhibited saturation kinetics with a maximal efflux (Jmax) of 31.8 nmol/cm2 per h and an apparent KNa of 4.0 mM. In contrast, .**GRAPHIC**. measured in conventional chambers and efflux determinations in the new chamber of substances that pass the epithelium via extracellular pathways (polyethylene glycol 900, sucrose, mannitol) exhibited a linear relationship between the efflux of the substance in question and its concentration in the bath. In addition, changes in external Na concentration did not cause substantial changes in .**GRAPHIC**. The saturation remained but both Jmax and KNa increased after application of ouabain. Amiloride, as well as dinitrophenol, eliminated the saturation and .**GRAPHIC**. became a linear function of Na concentration. The separate effects of ouabain and amiloride suggest that these 2 inhibitors which were known to affect 2 distinctly different steps in the active transport pathway act also on 2 separate steps of .**GRAPHIC**. the passage across the inward- (serosal) and outward-facing (apical) cell membranes of the epithelial cells, respectively. The action of dinitrophenol indicated the involvement of metabolism in .**GRAPHIC**. probably at the latter of the 2 steps. .**GRAPHIC**. apparently proceeds not via a paracellular but via a transcellular pathway that interacts with the active transport pathway.