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. 1982;333:111–123. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1982.sp014442

Ions and water in the epithelial cells of rabbit descending colon.

A D Macknight, D R Mason, R C Rose, B Sherman
PMCID: PMC1197237  PMID: 7182462

Abstract

1. Isolated sheets of rabbit descending colon epithelial cells stripped from their underlying muscle coats were incubated in chambers at 37 degrees C with oxygenated media, and their non-inulin space water, sodium, potassium and chloride contents were subsequently determined. 2. With sodium Ringer bathing both surfaces, amiloride, 10(-4) M, decreased non-inulin space sodium content by 76 mmol/kg dry wt. Ouabain, 10(-3) M, caused loss of non-inulin space potassium which was not completely compensated for by uptake of sodium over 30 min incubation. Chloride and water, therefore, decreased. Amiloride, 10(-4) M, inhibited but did not prevent this uptake of sodium after ouabain. 3. Tissues exposed to sodium-free choline Ringer rapidly exchanged non-inulin space sodium for choline and, more slowly, lost potassium, chloride and water. The equilibration of sodium in the non-inulin space when sodium Ringer was restored to the mucosal medium alone was largely amiloride-insensitive. For restoration of non-inulin space potassium to normal levels, sodium was required in the serosal but not the mucosal medium. 4. Neither the absence of glucose nor the absence of chloride from the mucosal medium affected the non-inulin space sodium content when sodium was restored to the mucosal medium bathing sodium-depleted tissues. 5. It is argued that, whereas non-inulin space potassium and water contents are synonymous with their cellular values, only about one third of non-inulin space sodium is cellular when sodium Ringer bathes both surfaces, and the concentration of the sodium within the cellular transport pool approximated 20 mmol/kg H2O, consistent with estimates obtained from other techniques.

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