AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 4 721-G726, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Electrolyte transport in rabbit cecum. I. Effect of RDEC-1 infection

Y. H. Tai, T. P. Gage, C. McQueen, S. B. Formal and E. C. Boedeker
Department of Gastroenterology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307-5100.

To investigate the characteristics of intestinal ion and fluid secretion induced by the adherent, effacing enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strain RDEC-1, we infected weanling rabbits with 10(7)-10(8) RDEC-1 organisms and then studied cecal ion transport under short-circuit conditions in Ussing chambers. Results in tissues with confluent adherent organisms were compared with those in uninfected ceca and in ceca stimulated with dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (DBcAMP). The short-circuited cecum normally absorbed Na and Cl, secreted bicarbonate (as represented by the residual ion flux), and displayed a high rate of nondiffusional Na and Cl transport. RDEC-1 infection did not alter the short-circuit current (Isc), but it increased the conductance (Gt), decreased the potential difference (PD), abolished net Na absorption, and reversed Cl absorption to secretion. The changes in Na and Cl net fluxes may be explained by inhibition of a Na-Cl linked absorptive process. In contrast, DBcAMP significantly increased the Isc, PD, and Gt, decreased net Na flux, and abolished net Cl absorption by stimulating electrogenic Cl secretion. These results suggest that RDEC-1-induced changes in cecal ion transport are not mediated by cAMP. The reduction in Na-Cl linked absorption is consistent with anatomic changes in the apical surfaces of absorptive epithelial characteristic of effacing enteroadherence, whereas the increased conductance is consistent with tight junction disruption seen with RDEC-1 infection.

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