Abstract
A characterization was attempted of the mechanisms involved in the tubular transport of inorganic divalent ions by the aglomerular kidney of Lophius, attention being paid particularly to the possible existence of transport maxima (Tm) and to competition for transport among related substances undergoing tubular excretion. Excretory rates of divalent ions in non-treated fish during standard laboratory conditions paralleled spontaneous changes in urine flow. Tm rates of excretion were reached for magnesium, sulfate, and thiosulfate with corresponding plasma levels of 2 to 5, 5 to 17, and 4 to 12 µM/ml. respectively. Elevation of magnesium chloride levels in plasma markedly depressed calcium excretion; sodium thiosulfate similarly depressed sulfate excretion. Experimental observations suggest the existence of a transport system for divalent cations separate from another for divalent anions. Within each transport system the ion with the higher excretion rate depressed competitively transfer of the other ion. Neither system was influenced by probenecid (benemid) in doses which markedly depressed the simultaneous excretion rate of p-aminohippuric acid.
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