COUNTERCURRENT MULTIPLICATION SYSTEM WITHOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORT IN INNER MEDULLA
COUNTERCURRENT MULTIPLICATION SYSTEM WITHOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORT IN INNER MEDULLA
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DOI:
10.1038/ki.1972.97
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
影响因子:
19.6
通讯作者:
RECTOR, FC
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作者:
KOKKO, JP;RECTOR, FC
Countercurrent multiplication system without active transport in inaer medulla. The present study reports a model for counter-current multiplication in which both the descending limb of Henle (DLH) and thin ascending limb of Henle (ALH) operate as purely passive equilibrating segments. This model is based largely on transport characteristics obtained by perfusing isolated segments of rabbit nephrons in vitro. For this passive equilibration model to be operative the following segmental membrane characteristics should be present: thin DLH, relatively impermeant to solute but having high osmotic water permeability (osmotic water equilibration raises intraluminal Na concentration to higher levels than adjacent interstitium); thin ALH, more permeant to NaC1 than urea and relatively impermeant to osmotic flow of water (hypoosmolal fluid can be generated passively by allowing more net NaC1 to diffuse out than influx of urea); thick ALH, relativly water and solute impermeable with capacity of active outward NaCi transport (hypotonic fluid with a low NaC1 concentration is developed); distal tubule, cor-tical and outer medullary collecting duct, impermeant to urea both in presence and absence of vasopressin (intraluminal urea is raised to high concentrations by virtue of water abstraction); inner medulla and papillary collecting duct, urea permeant (allows for generation of high interstitial urea concentration by passive diffusion down chemical concentration gradient). The salient feature of the proposed model is that the energy generated by active outward NaCi transport by thick ALH (expressed as high urea concentration in outer medullary CD by virtue of water abstraction) is transmitted to the papilla (by way of urea diffusing down its concentration gradient). In turn, papillary interstitial urea abstracts water out of DLH generating high intraluminal NaCi concentrations which allows the entire system to operate by passive diffusion of NaCl out of the thin ALH. By this model, the observed medullary concentration gradients are developed without invalidating the mass balance equations.Système de multiplication par contre courant sans transport actif dans la médullaire interne. Ce travail décrit un modéle de multiplication par contre courant dans lequel la branche descendante (DHL) et Ia partie gréle de la branche ascendante de l'anse de Henlé (AHL) se comportent comme des segments d'dquili-bration passive. Ce modéle est largement fondé sur les caractéristiques de transport obtenues par Ia perfusion in vitro de segments isolés de néphrons de lapin. Pour que ce modéle