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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 279: G107-G117, 2000;
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Vol. 279, Issue 1, G107-G117, July 2000

Luminal ammonia retards restitution of guinea pig injured gastric mucosa in vitro

Hideo Suzuki, Akinori Yanaka, and Hiroshi Muto

Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan

The present study was conducted to elucidate the mechanisms by which Helicobacter pylori (HP)-derived ammonia causes gastric mucosal injury. Intact sheets of guinea pig gastric fundic mucosae were incubated in Ussing chambers. Both the luminal and the serosal pH were kept at 7.4. Transmucosal potential difference (PD) and electrical resistance (R) were monitored as indices of mucosal integrity. Restitution was evaluated by recovery of PD, R, and transmucosal [3H]mannitol flux after Triton X-100-induced mucosal injury. The effects of luminal or serosal NH4Cl on function and morphology of uninjured or injured mucosae were examined. In uninjured mucosae, serosal NH4Cl induced more profound decreases in PD and R and more prominent vacuolation in gastric epithelial cells than did luminal NH4Cl. In contrast, luminal NH4Cl markedly inhibited restitution in injured mucosae and caused an extensive vacuolation in gastric epithelial cells, as did serosal NH4Cl. Transmucosal ammonia flux was greater in the injured than in the uninjured mucosae. These results suggest that 1) basolateral membrane of gastric epithelial cells is more permeable to ammonia than apical membrane and 2) luminal ammonia, at concentrations detected in HP-infected gastric lumen, retards restitution in injured mucosae.

Helicobacter pylori; vacuolation; apical membrane; basolateral membrane; epithelial cells


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