Inhibition of ion transport by bile salts in canine gastric mucosa

1976 ◽  
Vol 231 (5) ◽  
pp. 1433-1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
YJ Kuo ◽  
LL Shanbour

Studies were conducted with in vivo and in vitro canine stomach preparations. Instillation of 5, 10, and 20 mM bile salts in TES bufer (pH 7.4) into the nonsecreting stomach in vivo caused a progressive decrease in electrical potential difference (PD) and an increase in electrical resitance (R). The rate of acid secretion, determined by the pH-stat method in the histamine-stimulated stomach, decreased with 5 and 20 mM bile salts. Mucosal adenosine triphosphate (ATP) content of the nonsecreting or secreting stomach was reduced by bile salts. In vitro flux studies demonstrated that within the first hour after 1 mM bile salts were added to the mucosal side of the chamber, PD decreased, R increased, and net sodium transport decreased. In the second hour, unidirectional fluxes of sodium increased, indicating an increase in permeability of the gastric mucosa to sodium. These results demonstrate that the initial action of bile salts is inhibition of ion transport, which is followed by an increase in permeability.

1976 ◽  
Vol 230 (3) ◽  
pp. 762-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
YJ Kuo ◽  
LL Shanbour

Using an in vivo chambered canine stomach preparation, exposure of the gastric mucosa to 5, 10, and 20 mM aspirin(pH 3.0) resulted in a decrease in electrical potential difference (PD) and in an increase in resistance (R) within 30 min. In vitro, exposure of the mucosal side of the isolated canine gastric mucosa to 5, 10, and 20 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for 1 h or of 1 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for longer than 1 h resulted in marked permeability changes, i.e., increases in the undirectional fluxes of Na+ and Cl-, as well as inhibition of net ion fluxes. These concentrations of nonionized aspirin (pH 3.0) also reduced the R and PD. However, 1 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) or 20 mM ionized aspirin (pH 7.4) depresses the active transport of ion, increases R, but does not increase the ionic permeability. Mucosal adenosine triphosphate (ATP) content is reduced by mucosal instillation of aspirin (pH 3.0). These results demonstrate that the initial action of aspirin is inhibition of ion transport which is followed by an increase in permeability.


1978 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 900-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Marin ◽  
M. M. Zaremba

Active transport of Cl- toward the tracheal lumen and Na+ away from the lumen creates an electrical potential difference across dog tracheal epithelium. This study examined in vitro the effect of varying calcium concentration in the bathing media on the ion transport and electrical properties of dog tracheal epithelium. In six pairs of epithelia, changing calcium concentration from 1.9 to 0 mM resulted in a significant decrease in electrical resistance, from 318 +/- 36 to 214 +/- 24 omega.cm2. Short-circuit current and net Cl- and Na+ fluxes measured under short-circuit conditions were not changed significantly. Changing calcium concentration from 1.9 to 10 mM resulted in no significant change from control in the electrical properties nor in net Cl- and Na+ fluxes (short-circuit conditions). Histamine (10(-4) M) produced a significantly smaller increase in short-circuit current in 0 than in 1.9 mM Ca2+ (+5 +/- 2 vs. +12 +/- 2 microamperemeter/cm2). However, electrical changes were not significantly different in 1 or 10 mM Ca2+. These results indicate that calcium lack increased permeability of tracheal epithelium and that the increase in short-circuit current due to histamine depended in part on calcium.


1989 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Moriarty ◽  
N. B. Higgs ◽  
M. Woodford ◽  
L. A. Turnberg

1. Cholera toxin stimulates intestinal secretion in vitro by activation of mucosal adenylate cyclase. However, it has been proposed that cholera toxin promotes secretion in vivo mainly through an indirect mechanism involving enteric neural reflexes. 2. We examined this hypothesis further by studying the influence of neuronal blockade on cholera toxin-induced changes in fluid transport across rabbit ileum in vitro. Mucosa, stripped of muscle layers, was mounted in flux chambers and luminal application of crude cholera toxin (2 μg/ml) caused a delayed but sustained rise in the short-circuit current, electrical potential difference and Cl− secretion. Pretreatment with the nerve-blocking drug, tetrodotoxin (5 × 10−6 mol/l serosal side), failed to influence the secretory response to cholera toxin, and addition of tetrodotoxin at the peak response to cholera toxin also had no effect. 3. That tetrodotoxin could block neurally mediated secretagogues was confirmed by the demonstration that the electrical responses to neurotensin (10−7 mol/l and 10−8 mol/l) were blocked by tetrodotoxin (5 × 10−6 mol/l). Furthermore, the response to cholera toxin of segments of ileum, which included the myenteric, submucosal and mucosal nerve plexuses, was not inhibited by tetrodotoxin. 4. We conclude that cholera toxin-induced secretion in rabbit ileum in vitro is not mediated via a neurological mechanism.


1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1246-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
A F Goddard ◽  
R C Spiller

A novel animal model for studying antibiotic transfer across gastric mucosa was developed by using adult rats. Gastric corpus mucosa was mounted in an Ussing chamber system and bathed in oxygenated Krebs solution. Metronidazole flux from serosa to mucosa (J(S-->M)) was measured over 60 min under basal conditions and compared with mucosa-to-serosa flux (J(M-->S)). The effects of varying the chamber cross-sectional diameter and of stimulation by histamine and carbachol were assessed. Metronidazole J(M-->S) was measured with the mucosal pH at 2.2, 2.7, 3.2, and 7.4. Amoxicillin J(S-->M) under basal conditions was also measured and compared with metronidazole J(S-->M). Metronidazole J(S-->M) was proportional to serosal concentration (P < 0.001) under basal conditions, being 3.98 nmol x h(-1) x cm(-2) with a serosal concentration of 0.2 mmol/liter. Amoxicillin J(S-->M) was significantly lower under similar conditions at 0.50 nmol x h(-1) x cm(-2) (P < 0.01). Metronidazole J(S-->M) was not significantly different from J(M-->S), between chambers of different sizes, or following stimulation. When the mucosal pH was changed, J(M-->S) was proportional to the un-ionized concentration on the mucosal side (P < 0.001). Therefore, this model shows properties analogous to those of human gastric mucosa in vivo, with partitioning of metronidazole on the mucosal side according to pH, diffusion of metronidazole across the mucosa in both directions, and selectivity for different antibiotics, and it will be useful for the study of other therapeutic agents in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori.


1975 ◽  
Vol 152 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric S. Holdsworth ◽  
John E. Jordan ◽  
Ellen Keenan

An apparatus is described that allows perfusion of a non-everted segment of intestine in vitro and the study of the accumulation of substances within the mucosal cells. The translocation of Ca2+ by rachitic-chick ileum and the effect of pretreatment with cholecalciferol was investigated, with the following conclusions. (1) Entry of Ca2+ across the microvilli into mucosal cells is by diffusion; it does not require metabolic energy or the presence of any other inorganic ions. (2) Pretreatment of the chick with cholecalciferol causes increased permeability of the microvillus to Ca2+ in both directions (lumen to cell, cell to lumen). The increased transport brought about by cholecalciferol in vivo can be partially mimicked by sodium dodecyl sulphate added in vitro. (3) The sign and the magnitude of the electrical potential difference prevailing across the ileum does not influence Ca2+ transport. (4) Exit of Ca2+ from the mucosal cell is temperature-sensitive, requires metabolic energy and Na+. (5) Pretreatment with cholecalciferol caused increased movement of Ca2+ out of the cell across the basement membranes. This effect of cholecalciferol given in vivo could be markedly increased by the presence of dicyclohexylcarbodi-imide in the perfusion fluid. These observations suggested that cholecalciferol increased Ca2+ entry (and exit) at the mucosal surface and also caused Ca2+ to be more available to the pump at the serosal surface.


1982 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
J. C. Cornell

1. Measurements of electrical potential difference (PD), short-circuit current (SCC) and unidirectional fluxes of sodium and chloride were made across portions of the intestine. Based on the results, the intestine can be divided into at least four physiologically distinct regions. 2. These four physiological regions, designated from anterior to posterior as R I-II, R III A, R III B and R IV, do not completely correspond to the four anatomically distinct regions of the intestine. 3. The PD (serosal side positive) in R I-II, R III A, R III B and R IV is 1.08, 12.4, 5.61 and 31.7 mV, respectively. 4. The SCC in these same regions is 9.9, 50.4, 49.7, and 16.4 micro A cm2, respectively. 5. When short-circuited, net sodium and net chloride fluxes in the above regions are −0.36 and −0.27, 1.46*** and −0.92*, 1.74*** and −0.06 and 1.01*** and 0.07 mumol cm-2 h-1, respectively. Positive fluxes indicate net mucosal to serosal movements and asterisks indicate significant net fluxes (* P less than 0.05, *** P less than 0.001). 6. There is good agreement between the SCC and net sodium transport in R III B. In the other regions of the intestine the ionic basis of the SCC has not been completely explained. 7. The properties of the intestine in vitro appear to make the intestine well suited for the task of conserving sodium, a function which the intestine performs in vivo.


1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (2) ◽  
pp. R466-R472 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. G. McNaughton ◽  
L. A. Power ◽  
R. D. Gilbert ◽  
G. G. Power

These studies examined the transport characteristics of the uterine endometrium with respect to the origin and mechanism of generation of the maternal-fetal electrical potential difference (PD) in pregnant guinea pigs. Late-gestation animals were used in two experimental preparations. In vivo, a sealed uterine pouch that preserved blood flow to the endometrium was prepared by removal of the fetus, placenta, and fetal membranes from the uterus and replacement with Earle's solution, a balanced electrolyte solution. In vitro, sections of uterine wall comprised of myometrium and endometrium without fetal membranes were mounted in Ussing chambers. Transuterine PDs (fetal side negative) were indistinguishable in vivo and in vitro, averaging 29.6 +/- 4.5 and 32.6 +/- 6.1 (95% confidence interval) mV in the respective preparations. Both values are within the range of maternal-fetal PD measured in intact guinea pigs, indicating that the fetoplacental unit is not essential in generating an intrauterine PD. The maternal-fetal PD, therefore, is likely a passive result of the fetus and placenta being immersed in fluids at the intrauterine potential. In vitro, both PD and short-circuit current (Isc) were completely inhibited by ouabain (10(-3) M) at the serosal (maternal) side of the uterine wall but unaffected by the inhibitor from the luminal (fetal) side. Amiloride (10(-5) M) and valinomycin (10(-5) M) caused decreases in the PD when added to the luminal side, both in vivo and in vitro, and were both ineffective from the serosal side in vitro. Isc was reduced 83% from 315 +/- 24 to 53 +/- 6 (SE) microA/cm2 after luminal amiloride (5 x 10(-4) M), indicating that Na+ is the predominant ion actively transported.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1984 ◽  
Vol 247 (5) ◽  
pp. F695-F705 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Fromter

Electrical measurements with microelectrodes have proven of great value in the investigation of renal ion transport mechanisms. By virtue of their fine tips (less than 1 micron in diameter) and because of the ease of recording electrical transients, they provide measurements with unparallelled space and time resolution. Early electrophysiological work was done largely in amphibians, because of their larger cell size, whereas studies in mammals were restricted to transepithelial electrical parameters, which provided no insight into individual membrane mechanisms. However, recently techniques have been developed to impale individual tubular cells of mammalian kidneys successfully, both in vivo and in vitro. Such experiments allow us to identify ion transport properties of individual cell membranes from the response of the electrical potential to fast pertubations of the luminal and/or peritubular fluid composition or to applied currents. The power of this approach was greatly increased by the development of ion-selective microelectrodes, allowing us to measure intracellular concentrations of Na+, K+, Cl-, Ca2+, and HCO3- or pH directly and to follow quantitatively their changes in response to different experimental maneuvers. In the present paper our knowledge of ion transport mechanisms of mammalian proximal tubular cell membranes is summarized, with emphasis on the transport of Na+, K+, HCO3-, and Cl-. With the exception of transcellular transport of Cl-, which is quantitatively less important, the major transport mechanisms of all other ions have been identified in the brush border and in the peritubular cell membrane. Emphasis is given to the description of HCO3- exit across the peritubular cell membrane, which has not thus far been studied with other than electrophysiological techniques. Microelectrode techniques will probably continue to provide new insight when regulatory phenomena are studied on the cellular level and individual conductance channels in renal cell membranes are identified with the newly developed patch-clamp technique.


1983 ◽  
Vol 245 (6) ◽  
pp. G751-G759 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. Smeaton ◽  
B. H. Hirst ◽  
A. Allen ◽  
A. Garner

Gastric and duodenal HCO3- transport was compared in the same mammalian species (cat) in vivo. The most appropriate technique for detecting HCO3- in the lumen of the stomach was measurement of pH and CO2 tension, whereas in the duodenum it was pH-stat titration. For experiments on gastric HCO3- transport, conscious cats prepared with vagally denervated fundic pouches were used; for those on duodenal transport anesthetized animals with in situ perfused segments were studied. When expressed in terms of gross surface area, basal HCO3- output was six times greater in the duodenum than in the stomach (approximately 1.5 cf. approximately 0.25 mumol X cm-2 X 15 min-1). topical application of 16,16-dimethyl prostaglandin E2 (dmPGE2) to duodenal mucosa caused a concentration-dependent increase in HCO3- output and transmucosal electrical potential difference (PD) over the range 0.01–1.0 microgram X ml-1. PGE2 was approximately 200 times less potent than dmPGE2 as a stimulant of duodenal HCO3- transport. Increases in the rate of luminal HCO3- output following application of dmPGE2 were considerably less in the stomach compared with the duodenum (approximately 50% cf. approximately 1,000% at 1 microgram X ml-1). Intravenous dmPGE2 (1 microgram X kg-1 X h-1) had no effect on either gastric or duodenal HCO3- outputs. Indomethacin (5 mg X kg-1 iv) inhibited duodenal HCO3- output by approximately 50% and reduced PD but did not influence gastric HCO3- output. We propose that in the cat duodenum in vivo local prostaglandins regulate HCO3- transport, but in the cat stomach in vivo they have a less important role.


1977 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 735-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Marin ◽  
B. Davis ◽  
J. A. Nadel

Previously we showed that the active transport of Cl-toward and Na+ away from the tracheal lumen creates an electrical potential difference (lumen negative) across the canine tracheal epithelium in vitro. The present study examined the effect of histamine on the electrical properties and ion transport of the canine tracheal epithelium in vitro. In six pairs of membranes, under short-circuit conditions, histamine (10(-4) M) significantly increased the net flux toward the lumen of Cl- from 1.7 +- 0.5 SE to 2.4 +- 0.6 microneq/cm2-h and Na+ from -0.4 +- 0.3 to 0.2 +- 0.3 microneq/cm2-h. The response to histamine was inhibited by diphenhydramine (10(-6) M), an H1-receptor antagonist, but not by burimamide (10(-4) M), an H2-receptor antagonist. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that an H1-type receptor mediates the increase of ion flux toward the lumen due to histamine. Increased ion flux toward the lumen may mediate water secretion into the airway lumen and have important effects on the physical properties of the liquid through which the respiratory cilia beat.


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