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. 1975 Sep;250(3):559–578. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1975.sp011070

Cell electrical potentials during enhanced sodium extrusion in guinea-pig kidney cortex slices.

F Proverbio, G Whittembury
PMCID: PMC1348393  PMID: 1177150

Abstract

1. Experiments were performed on outermost slices of the guinea-pig kidney which are mainly made up of proximal tubular cells. 2. Kidney cells loaded with Na+ by chilling at 0.6 degrees C for 2.5 hr, when subsequently rewarmed to 25 degrees C in a medium containing 16 mM-K+ extrude Na+ at enhanced speed for about 10 min. This Na+ movement is accompanied by efflux of Cl and influx of K+. 3. Measurements of cell potential during enhanced Na+ extrusion show that cells hyperpolarize to values about 30 mV more negative than the K+ equilibrium potential. 4. This hyperpolarization is only partly inhibited by 1 mM ouabain or by 2 mM ethacrynic acid but both agents added together suppress it completely. 5. With 16 mM-Rb instead of 16 mM-K the hyperpolarization is smaller. 6. A diminished extracellular K+ concentration outside of the cells, within the slice, can account for only a small part of the hyperpolarization. 7. The hyperpolarization is proportional to the rate of Na+ pumping. 8. Cl- seems to shunt the hyperpolarization to a greater extent than K+. 9. It is concluded that Na+ extrusion is capable of transferring electric charge across the membrane.

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