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. 1987 Apr;51(4):533–546. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(87)83379-9

Kinetic transport model for cellular regulation of pH and solute concentration in the renal proximal tubule.

A S Verkman, R J Alpern
PMCID: PMC1329926  PMID: 3580482

Abstract

An open circuit kinetic model was developed to calculate the time course of proximal tubule cell pH, solute concentrations, and volume in response to induced perturbations in luminal or peritubular fluid composition. Solute fluxes were calculated from electrokinetic equations containing terms for known carrier saturabilities, allosteric dependences, and ion coupling ratios. Apical and basolateral membrane potentials were determined iteratively from the requirements of cell electroneutrality and equal opposing transcellular and paracellular currents. The model converged to membrane potentials accurate to 0.05% in one to four iterations. Model variables included cell concentrations of Na, K, HCO3, glucose, pH (uniform CO2), volume, and apical and basolateral membrane potentials. The basic model contained passive apical membrane transport of Na/H, Na/glucose, H and K, basolateral transport of Na/3HCO3, K, H, and glucose, and paracellular transport of Na, K, Cl, and HCO3; apical H and basolateral 3Na/2K-ATPases were present. Apical Na/H and basolateral K transport were regulated allosterically by pH. Apical Na/H transport, basolateral Na/3HCO3 transport, and the 3Na/2K-ATPase were saturable. Model parameters were chosen from data in the rat proximal tubule. Model predictions for the magnitude and time course of cell pH, Na, and membrane potential in response to rapid changes in apical and peritubular Na and HCO3 were in excellent agreement with experiment. In addition, the model requires that there exist an apical H-ATPase, basolateral Na/3HCO3 transport saturable with HCO3, and electroneutral basolateral K transport.

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