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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 252: G776-G782, 1987;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 252, Issue 6 776-G782, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Absence of a cAMP-mediated antiabsorptive effect in an undifferentiated jejunal epithelium

R. J. MacLeod and J. R. Hamilton

In the relatively undifferentiated jejunal mucosa occurring in piglet viral enteritis, we measured the response of transepithelial Na+ and Cl- fluxes in vitro to raised intracellular adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) levels. At the acute 40-h stage of transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE), luminal membrane markers, sucrase and lactase, and a basolateral jejunal epithelial membrane marker Na+-K+-ATPase, were significantly decreased in activity, while a proliferative marker, thymidine kinase, was significantly enriched; these enzyme characteristics are typical of enterocytes isolated from crypts of other species. As expected, control piglet jejunum in short-circuited Ussing chambers after theophylline (10 mM) developed significant net secretory Na and Cl fluxes primarily due to significant antiabsorptive effects (delta JNa m----s = 3.48 +/- 0.52, delta JCl m----s = 2.59 +/- 0.28). Furosemide (10(-4) M), an inhibitor of electroneutral NaCl cotransport, produced antiabsorptive effects (delta JNa m----s = 2.53 +/- 0.31, delta JCl m----s = 2.58 +/- 0.28) in control jejunum that were not significantly different from those seen in response to theophylline. TGE jejunum, however, responded to theophylline not by an antiabsorptive effect but by significant electrogenic Cl- secretion (delta JCl s----m = 1.59 +/- 0.48); furosemide had no effect on ion fluxes in TGE tissue. Control and TGE jejunal mucosal homogenates did not differ in their basal or theophylline-stimulated levels of cAMP. We conclude that the relatively undifferentiated small intestine occurring in acute TGE does not generate either a cAMP-mediated antiabsorptive effect or a furosemide-mediated antiabsorptive effect.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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