Regulation of colonic ion transport by GRP. I. GRP stimulates transepithelial K and Na secretion

1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (3) ◽  
pp. C848-C858 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Traynor ◽  
S. M. O'Grady

Regulation of electrolyte transport across porcine distal colon epithelium by gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) was examined using mucosal sheets mounted in Ussing chambers. Serosal GRP produced a biphasic response consisting of a transient increase in short-circuit current (ISC) followed by a long-lasting decrease. Indomethacin and tetrodotoxin inhibited the ISC increase without affecting the secondary decrease. Addition of GRP to the mucosal solution produced a decrease in ISC similar to that observed with serosal treatment, but no transient increase in ISC was observed. GRP and bombesin (50% effective concentrations of 26 and 30 nM, respectively) were more effective than neuromedin B in decreasing the ISC, and the GRP receptor antagonist [D-Phe(6)]bombesin(6-13)-O-methyl produced a sixfold dextral shift in the GRP concentration-response relationship. The GRP-stimulated decrease was reduced in the absence of Cl and by serosal bumetanide. Flux measurements showed that GRP increased Rb and Na secretion while having no effect on transepithelial Cl transport. Phosphoinositide turnover was increased by GRP, suggesting that the ion transport changes may be mediated by intracellular Ca concentration. The results of this study demonstrate that GRP stimulates K and Na secretion across the porcine distal colon epithelium and that these processes are dependent, in part, on a bumetanide-sensitive transport pathway located in the basolateral membrane.

1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (2) ◽  
pp. R426-R431 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Traynor ◽  
D. R. Brown ◽  
S. M. O'Grady

Electrical transmural stimulation (ETS) was used to examine the neuroregulation of electrolyte transport in the porcine distal colon. ETS of the colonic mucosa-submucosa mounted in Ussing chambers produced rapid and transient increases in short-circuit current (Isc) that were inhibited 36% by serosal bumetanide, suggesting that a portion of the response may be attributed to Cl secretion. ETS actions were dependent upon stimulus intensity and frequency and were inhibited by tetrodotoxin and omega-conotoxin. Prazosin and pyrilamine had no effect on the mucosal responses to ETS, whereas atropine reduced the responses by 32%. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) also reduced the mucosal responses to ETS up to 60% (half-maximal effective concentration = 17 nM). In addition, the effects of leukotriene C4, previously shown to stimulate Cl secretion via a neuronal pathway, were also inhibited by NPY. These results indicate that cholinergic submucosal neurons play a role in the regulation of epithelial ion transport and that NPY acts as an inhibitory neuromodulator, particularly on leukotriene-sensitive neurons in the porcine distal colon.


1991 ◽  
Vol 260 (4) ◽  
pp. C750-C755 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Traynor ◽  
S. M. O'Grady

Porcine distal colon epithelium was mounted in Ussing chambers and bathed with porcine Ringer solution. The serosal addition of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP; 50 nM) or atriopeptin III (AP-III; 500 nM) produced significant increases (50-75 microA/cm2) in short-circuit current (Isc). These increases in Isc were not inhibited by pretreatment with tetrodotoxin (TTX) or 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid (ETYA). Analysis of concentration-response relationships revealed that BNP was 5.8-fold more potent than AP-III in stimulating the Isc. BNP and AP-III significantly increased the serosal-to-mucosal (S----M) Cl flux and reduced net Cl absorption by 38 and 41%, respectively. The BNP-stimulated S----M Cl flux was abolished when HCO3 was removed. In contrast, the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-stimulated S----M Cl flux was not affected by HCO3 replacement. In addition to their effects on Cl transport, BNP and AP-III increased net Rb secretion by 79 and 58%, respectively. BNP-stimulated Rb secretion was reduced by 76% after HCO3 replacement. These results indicate that natriuretic peptides stimulate K- and HCO3-dependent Cl secretion which is not present under basal conditions or after VIP stimulation. The difference in potency between BNP and AP-III suggests that ANP-B receptors may mediate their effects on ion transport in the porcine colon.


2005 ◽  
Vol 288 (3) ◽  
pp. G457-G465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Dong ◽  
Zachary M. Sellers ◽  
Anders Smith ◽  
Jimmy Y. C. Chow ◽  
Kim E. Barrett

Stimulation of muscarinic receptors in duodenal mucosa raises intracellular Ca2+, which regulates ion transport, including HCO3− secretion. However, the underlying Ca2+ handling mechanisms are poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to determine whether Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) plays a role in the regulation of duodenal mucosal ion transport and HCO3− secretion by controlling Ca2+ homeostasis. Mouse duodenal mucosa was mounted in Ussing chambers. Net ion transport was assessed as short-circuit current ( Isc), and HCO3− secretion was determined by pH-stat. Expression of NCX in duodenal mucosae was analyzed by Western blot, and cytosolic Ca2+ in duodenocytes was measured by fura 2. Carbachol (100 μM) increased Isc in a biphasic manner: an initial transient peak within 2 min and a later sustained plateau starting at 10 min. Carbachol-induced HCO3− secretion peaked at 10 min. 2-Aminoethoxydiphenylborate (2-APB, 100 μM) or LiCl (30 mM) significantly reduced the initial peak in Isc by 51 or 47%, respectively, and abolished the plateau phase of Isc without affecting HCO3− secretion induced by carbachol. Ryanodine (100 μM), caffeine (10 mM), and nifedipine (10 μM) had no effect on either response to carbachol. In contrast, nickel (5 mM) and KB-R7943 (10–30 μM) significantly inhibited carbachol-induced increases in duodenal mucosal Isc and HCO3− secretion. Western blot analysis showed expression of NCX1 proteins in duodenal mucosae, and functional NCX in duodenocytes was demonstrated in Ca2+ imaging experiments where Na+ depletion elicited Ca2+ entry via the reversed mode of NCX. These results indicate that NCX contributes to the regulation of Ca2+-dependent duodenal mucosal ion transport and HCO3− secretion that results from stimulation of muscarinic receptors.


1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (4) ◽  
pp. G483-G488 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Potter ◽  
R. Lester ◽  
S. M. Burlingame ◽  
P. A. Mitchell ◽  
K. L. Schmidt

Failure to absorb bile acids by the ileum leads to fluid secretion by the colon and diarrhea in adults. The infant ileum, however, does not actively transport bile acids. Therefore, we investigated the effect of taurodeoxycholic acid (TDCA) on ion transport in the colon of rabbits 7-10 days old. We mounted distal colon from infant and adult rabbits in modified Ussing chambers and exposed the mucosal or serosal surfaces to TDCA. In the adult, 50 microM TDCA produced an increase in short-circuit current (delta Isc = 1.0 +/- 0.3 mu eq . h-1 . cm-2, P less than 0.05) and Cl secretion. In the infant, the effect was different, Isc was reduced (delta Isc = -1.1 +/- 0.2 mu eq . h-1 . cm-2, P less than 0.01) and ion flux was not altered. Microscopy demonstrated that the infant epithelium was not significantly damaged by exposure to TDCA at these concentrations. The infant colon was, however, capable of a secretory response to a variety of agonists including theophylline, carbachol, bradykinin, serotonin, and 12,13-dibutyryl phorbol ester. The infant rabbit distal colon lacks a secretory response to TDCA during that period when the ileum cannot transport bile acids.


1993 ◽  
Vol 264 (5) ◽  
pp. G848-G854 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Ballantyne ◽  
J. R. Goldenring ◽  
F. X. Fleming ◽  
S. Rush ◽  
J. S. Flint ◽  
...  

Neurocrine, endocrine, and paracrine regulators are critical to the control of colonic secretion. These studies have investigated the inhibition of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)-stimulated ion transport by peptide YY (PYY) and other Y-class effectors in rabbit distal colonic mucosa mounted in Ussing chambers. PYY decreased basal short-circuit current (Isc) but did not significantly change either basal Na+ or Cl- flux. PYY inhibited VIP-stimulated increases in Isc by up to 86% and abolished VIP-induced Cl- secretion. PYY decreased VIP-generated increases in Isc by a tetrodotoxin-insensitive mechanism. PYY inhibited cholera toxin-stimulated as well as forskolin-stimulated increases in Isc but failed to alter stimulation by 8-bromoadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (8-BrcAMP). PYY decreased VIP-stimulated increases in tissue cAMP by 88% and forskolin-stimulated increases by 84%. PYY, neuropeptide Y (NPY), (Leu31,Pro34)-NPY, and pancreatic polypeptide (PP) all demonstrated potent inhibition of VIP-stimulated increases in Isc. PYY-(13-36) demonstrated little effect on VIP stimulation. Thus the rabbit distal colon possesses a novel Y-class receptor phenotype that demonstrates high affinity for all three PP-fold peptides, NPY, PYY, and PP.


1992 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. L. Travis ◽  
D. P. Jewell

1. Platelet-activating factor is an inflammatory mediator related to eicosanoids which is known to stimulate anion secretion in the distal colon. Since there are regional differences in ion transport within the colon, the influence of platelet-activating factors on ion transport and epithelial permeability has been studied in rabbit caecum and distal colon mounted in Ussing chambers. 2. The effect of platelet-activating factor (1–50 nmol/l) on net electrogenic ion transport was to stimulate a biphasic increase in short-circuit current in the distal colon but not in the caecum. The platelet-activating factor-induced rise in short-circuit current was shown by ion replacement and pharmacological inhibitor studies to be consistent with chloride and bicarbonate secretion in the early phase, but with chloride secretion alone in the later phase. The effect on ion transport was specific and reversible and was enhanced by 0.25% BSA. 3. Colonic permeability, assessed by transmucosal resistance and mannitol flux, was increased by platelet-activating factor in both the distal colon and the caecum. This was consistent with an effect on platelet-activating factor on the paracellular pathway, because resistance decreased even when transcellular chloride transport was inhibited by frusemide or ion replacement. A specific platelet-activating factor antagonist (U66985) inhibited the effects of platelet-activating factor in both the distal colon and the caecum. 4. The results show that platelet-activating factor stimulates anion secretion only in the distal colon, but increases permeability in both the caecum and the distal colon.


1994 ◽  
Vol 267 (4) ◽  
pp. R1026-R1033 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. DuVall ◽  
S. M. O'Grady

Intact epithelium from the porcine distal colon was stripped of serosal muscle and mounted in Ussing chambers to investigate the regulation of Na, Cl, and K transport by guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) and elevations in intracellular [Ca2+]. Under voltage-clamped conditions cGMP (250 microM) produced an increase in tissue short-circuit current (Isc) that reached a maximal value within 10-20 min and remained elevated > 40 min. This response was associated with an inhibition of NaCl absorption and stimulation of Cl and K secretion. In the absence of Cl the Isc also slowly increased but returned to baseline values within 20 min. Bicarbonate removal from both serosal and mucosal solutions or serosal bumetanide (20 microM) reduced the effect of cGMP on Isc by approximately 40%. When performed simultaneously, these conditions reduced the cGMP response by approximately 60%. Transepithelial Na and Cl flux measurements indicated that serosal bumetanide blocked increased Cl secretion without effecting changes in NaCl absorption. In contrast, mucosal amiloride blocked the effects of cGMP on NaCl absorption but not Cl secretion. The cGMP Isc response was potentiated in the presence of 1 mM, but not 10 microM, amiloride. Moreover, 1 mM amiloride inhibited Isc under control conditions but was ineffective in the presence of cGMP. The Ca2+ ionophore ionomycin (3 microM) produced a transient increase in the Isc that was also associated with a decrease in transepithelial NaCl absorption and an increase in Cl and K secretion. In contrast to cGMP, the ionomycin Isc response was eliminated after Cl removal from the bath.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1988 ◽  
Vol 255 (2) ◽  
pp. G247-G252 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Charney ◽  
J. I. Scheide ◽  
P. M. Ingrassia ◽  
J. A. Zadunaisky

Chloride absorption in the small intestine of the winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, is reported to be sensitive to ambient pH. We studied this sensitivity in isolated stripped intestinal mucosa mounted in modified Ussing chambers. Unidirectional 36Cl fluxes (JClm----s, JCls----m) were measured under short-circuited conditions in bathing solutions containing various combinations of HCO3- (0-20 mM), partial pressure of CO2 (0-36 mmHg), and pH (6.77-7.85). We found that JClm----s, net 36Cl flux (JClnet), and short-circuit current (Isc) increased and JCls----m decreased predominately in response to increases in bathing solution pH. There was a linear relationship between pH and both JClnet (r = 0.92, P less than 0.01) and Isc (r = 0.96, P less than 0.005) between pH 6.77 and 7.74. The pH effect was completely reversible, did not require either CO2 or HCO3-, and was not affected by the presence of mucosal barium at 1 mM. Mucosal bumetanide (0.1 mM) completely inhibited the pH effect. These data suggest that the process by which Cl- is absorbed in the flounder intestine is sensitive to pH. The data do not indicate whether pH affects Na+-K+-2Cl- cotransport or a Cl- transport pathway in series with this process. The direction of Cl- absorption in response to pH contrasts with inverse relation of pH and Cl- absorption in mammalian small intestine.


1988 ◽  
Vol 255 (3) ◽  
pp. G286-G291 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Orlando ◽  
N. A. Tobey ◽  
V. J. Schreiner ◽  
R. D. Readling

The transmural electrical potential difference (PD) was measured in vivo across the buccal mucosa of humans and experimental animals. Mean PD was -31 +/- 2 mV in humans, -34 +/- 2 mV in dogs, -39 +/- 2 mV in rabbits, and -18 +/- 1 mV in hamsters. The mechanisms responsible for this PD were explored in Ussing chambers using dog buccal mucosa. After equilibration, mean PD was -16 +/- 2 mV, short-circuit current (Isc) was 15 +/- 1 microA/cm2, and resistance was 1,090 +/- 100 omega.cm2, the latter indicating an electrically "tight" tissue. Fluxes of [14C]mannitol, a marker of paracellular permeability, varied directly with tissue conductance. The net fluxes of 22Na and 36Cl were +0.21 +/- 0.05 and -0.04 +/- 0.02 mueq/h.cm2, respectively, but only the Na+ flux differed significantly from zero. Isc was reduced by luminal amiloride, serosal ouabain, or by reducing luminal Na+ below 20 mM. This indicated that the Isc was determined primarily by active Na+ absorption and that Na+ traverses the apical membrane at least partly through amiloride-sensitive channels and exits across the basolateral membrane through Na+-K+-ATPase activity. We conclude that buccal mucosa is capable of active electrolyte transport and that this capacity contributes to generation of the buccal PD in vivo.


1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (6) ◽  
pp. L459-L467 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Tessier ◽  
T. R. Traynor ◽  
M. S. Kannan ◽  
S. M. O3'Grady

Equine tracheal epithelium, stripped of serosal muscle, mounted in Ussing chambers, and bathed in plasmalike Ringer solution generates a serosa-positive transepithelial potential of 10–22 mV and a short-circuit current (Isc) of 70–200 microA/cm2. Mucosal amiloride (10 microM) causes a 40–60% decrease in Isc and inhibits the net transepithelial Na flux by 95%. Substitution of Cl with gluconate resulted in a 30% decrease in basal Isc. Bicarbonate substitution with 20 mM N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid decreased the Isc by 21%. The Cl-dependent Isc was inhibited by serosal addition of 1 mM amiloride. Bicarbonate replacement or serosal amiloride (1 mM) inhibits the net Cl flux by 72 and 69%, respectively. Bicarbonate replacement significantly reduces the effects of serosal amiloride (1 mM) on Isc, indicating its effect is HCO3 dependent. Addition of 8-bromoadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (8-BrcAMP; 100 microM) causes a 40% increase in Isc. This effect is inhibited by subsequent addition of 10 microM serosal bumetanide. Bumetanide (10 microM) reduces net Cl secretion following stimulation with 8-BrcAMP (100 microM). Serosal addition of BaCl2 (1 mM) causes a reduction in Isc equal to that following Cl replacement in the presence or absence of 100 microM cAMP. These results suggest that 1) Na absorption depends on amiloride-inhibitable Na channels in the apical membrane, 2) Cl influx across the basolateral membrane occurs by both a Na-H/Cl-HCO3 parallel exchange mechanism under basal conditions and by a bumetanide-sensitive Na-(K?)-Cl cotransport system under cAMP-stimulated conditions, and 3) basal and cAMP-stimulated Cl secretion depends on Ba-sensitive K channels in the basolateral membrane.


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