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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 276: G507-G517, 1999;
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Vol. 276, Issue 2, G507-G517, February 1999

Mechanisms of basolateral Na+ transport in rabbit esophageal epithelial cells

Solange Abdulnour-Nakhoul, Serhat Bor, Nese Imeryuz, and Roy C. Orlando

Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112-2699

We examined the mechanisms of cellular Na+ transport, both Cl- dependent and Cl- independent, in the mammalian esophageal epithelium. Rabbit esophageal epithelium was dissected from its muscular layers and mounted in a modified Ussing chamber for impalement with ion-selective microelectrodes. In bicarbonate Ringer, transepithelial potential difference was -14.9 ± 0.9 mV, the transepithelial resistance (RTE) was 1,879 ± 142 Omega  · cm2, the basolateral membrane potential difference (VmBL) was -53 ± 1.5 mV, and the intracellular activity of Na+ (aNai) was 24.6 ± 2.1 mM. Removal of Na+ and Cl- from the serosal and luminal baths decreased aNai to 6.6 ± 0.6 mM. Readdition of Na+ to the serosal bath in the absence of Cl- increased aNai by 21.8 ± 3.0 mM, whereas VmBL and RTE remained unchanged. When serosal Na+ was readded in the presence of amiloride the increase in aNai and the rate of Na+ entry were decreased by ~50%. 5-(N-ethyl-N-isopropyl)amiloride mimicked the effect of amiloride, whereas phenamil did not. Subsequent readdition of Cl- to the serosal bath further increased aNai by 4.4 ± 1.9 mM. When the cells were acid loaded by pretreatment with NH+4 in nominally HCO-3-free Ringer, intracellular pH measurements showed a pHi recovery that is dependent on the presence of Na+ in the serosal bath and that can be blocked by amiloride. These data indicate that esophageal epithelial cells possess a Na+-dependent, amiloride-sensitive electroneutral mechanism for Na+ entry consistent with the presence of a basolateral Na+/H+ exchanger. The ability of Cl- to further enhance Na+ entry supports the existence of at least one additional Cl--dependent component of basolateral Na+ entry.

sodium/hydrogen exchange; amiloride; intracellular sodium; intracellular pH


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