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Departament de Fisiologia-Divisió IV, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
To evaluate the effect of age on
sugar transport, we determined the uptake of methyl
-D-glucopyranoside and the abundance of the
Na+-D-glucose cotransporter (SGLT1) in jejunal
brush-border membrane (BBM) vesicles of 2-day- and 5-wk-old
chickens. Methyl
-D-glucopyranoside transport
per BBM protein was 40% lower in adults than in newly hatched
chickens. This finding was matched by parallel declines in site density
of SGLT1, which were detected by Western blot. The immunohistochemical
study showed that SGLT1 was exclusively located in the BBM of
enterocytes along the entire villus and was absent in the crypt in both
age groups, and there was an 11-fold increase in the total absorptive
area during development. Northern blot studies of the abundance of
SGLT1 mRNA showed similar levels for the groups studied. We conclude
that the age-related decline in Na+-dependent hexose
transport per unit of BBM protein in the chicken jejunum is due to a
reduction in the density of SGLT1 cotransporter and is regulated by a
posttranscriptional mechanism.
immunolocalization; Western blot; Northern blot; intestinal hexose transport
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