AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 244, Issue 6 695-G700, Copyright © 1983 by American Physiological Society

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Duodenal and ileal calcium absorption in the rat and effects of vitamin D

D. Pansu, C. Bellaton, C. Roche and F. Bronner

An in situ ligated loop procedure was applied to dissect transmural calcium transport in the intestine into two components, a saturable and a nonsaturable process. The existence of two such processes was confirmed in the duodenum, but ileal calcium transport was devoid of the saturable component. There was a small saturable component in the upper jejunum. The level of CaBP, the vitamin D-dependent cytosolic calcium-binding protein (Mr, approximately or equal to 9,000), corresponded to the magnitude of the saturable component. No CaBP was detected in the ileum. Vitamin D dependence of the saturable component was established by inducing it in the duodenum of vitamin D-deficient animals following intraperitoneal injection of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. In these same animals, conversely, the ileum did not respond to exogenous 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. This confirms the absence in the ileum of the saturable component of transmural calcium movement and the fact that the nonsaturable component is not vitamin D dependent. Everted sac experiments also showed that duodenal sacs from vitamin D-replete or -repleted animals transported calcium against a chemical gradient, whereas ileal sacs did not. Vitamin D regulation of intestinal calcium absorption thus occurs only in the proximal intestine, even though calcium is absorbed down its chemical gradient all along the small intestine.

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