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Na-glucose and Na-neutral amino acid cotransport are uniquely regulated by constitutive nitric oxide in rabbit small intestinal villus cells

²Section of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and ¹West Virginia University Medical Center, Morgantown, West Virginia

Submitted 21 March 2005 ; accepted in final form 30 April 2005

Na-nutrient cotransport processes are not only important for the assimilation of essential nutrients but also for the absorption of Na in the mammalian small intestine. The effect of constitutive nitric oxide (cNO) on Na-glucose (SGLT-1) and Na-amino acid cotransport (NAcT) in the mammalian small intestine is unknown. Inhibition of cNO synthase with N^G-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) resulted in the inhibition of Na-stimulated ³H-O-methyl-D-glucose uptake in villus cells. However, Na-stimulated alanine uptake was not affected in these cells. The L-NAME-induced reduction in SGLT-1 in villus cells was not secondary to an alteration in basolateral membrane Na-K-ATPase activity, which provides the favorable Na gradient for this cotransport process. In fact, SGLT-1 was inhibited in villus cell brush-border membrane (BBM) vesicles prepared from animals treated with L-NAME. Kinetic studies demonstrated that the mechanism of inhibition of SGLT-1 was secondary to a decrease in the affinity for glucose without a change in the maximal rate of uptake of glucose. Northern blot studies demonstrated no change in the mRNA levels of SGLT-1. Western blot studies demonstrated no significant change in the immunoreactive protein levels of SGLT-1 in ileal villus cell BBM from L-NAME-treated rabbits. These studies indicate that inhibition of cNO production inhibits SGLT-1 but not NAcT in the rabbit small intestine. Therefore, whereas cNO promotes Na-glucose cotransport, it does not affect NAcT in the mammalian small intestine.

mucosal blood flow; glucose absorption; sodium absorption; intestinal absorption; regulation of intestinal glucose; amino acid absorption

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