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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 283: G739-G746, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00540.2001
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Vol. 283, Issue 3, G739-G746, September 2002

Unimpaired osmotic water permeability and fluid secretion in bile duct epithelia of AQP1 null mice

Albert Mennone1, Alan S. Verkman2, and James L. Boyer1

1 Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520; and 2 Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Cardiovascular Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143

The mechanisms by which fluid moves across the luminal membrane of cholangiocyte epithelia are uncertain. Previous studies suggested that aquaporin-1 (AQP1) is an important determinant of water movement in rat cholangiocytes and that cyclic AMP mediates the movement of these water channels from cytoplasm to apical membrane, thereby increasing the osmotic water permeability. To test this possibility we measured agonist-stimulated fluid secretion and osmotically driven water transport in isolated bile duct units (IBDUs) from AQP1 wild-type (+/+) and null (-/-) mice. AQP1 expression was confirmed in a mouse cholangiocyte cell line and +/+ liver. Forskolin-induced fluid secretion, measured from the kinetics of IBDU luminal expansion, was 0.05 fl/min and was not impaired in -/- mice. Osmotic water permeability (Pf), measured from the initial rate of IBDU swelling in response to a 70-mosM osmotic gradient, was 11.1 × 10-4 cm/s in +/+ mice and 11.5 × 10-4 cm/s in -/- mice. Pf values increased by ~50% in both +/+ and -/- mice following preincubation with forskolin. These findings provide direct evidence that AQP1 is not rate limiting for water movement in mouse cholangiocytes and does not appear to be regulated by cyclic AMP in this species.

aquaporins; cholangiocytes; bile formation; adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate


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