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MUCOSAL BIOLOGY

Basolateral Mg²⁺/Na⁺ exchange regulates apical nonselective cation channel in sheep rumen epithelium via cytosolic Mg²⁺

¹Department of Physiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany; and ²Department of Veterinary Physiology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Submitted 25 June 2004 ; accepted in final form 12 November 2004

High potassium diets lead to an inverse regulation of sodium and magnesium absorption in ruminants, suggesting some form of cross talk. Previous Ussing chamber experiments have demonstrated a divalent sensitive Na⁺ conductance in the apical membrane of ruminal epithelium. Using patch-clamped ruminal epithelial cells, we could observe a divalent sensitive, nonselective cation conductance (NSCC) with K⁺ permeability > Cs⁺ permeability > Na⁺ permeability. Conductance increased and rectification decreased when either Mg²⁺ or both Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ were removed from the internal or external solution or both. The conductance could be blocked by Ba²⁺, but not by tetraethylammonium (TEA). Subsequently, we studied this conductance measured as short-circuit current (I_sc) in Ussing chambers. Forskolin, IBMX, and theophylline are known to block both I_sc and Na transport across ruminal epithelium in the presence of divalent cations. When the NSCC was stimulated by removing mucosal calcium, an initial decrease in I_sc was followed by a subsequent increase. The cAMP-mediated increase in I_sc was reduced by low serosal Na⁺ and serosal addition of imipramine or serosal amiloride and depended on the availability of mucosal magnesium. Luminal amiloride had no effect. Flux studies showed that low serosal Na⁺ reduced ²⁸Mg fluxes from mucosal to serosal. The data suggest that cAMP stimulates basolateral Na⁺/Mg²⁺ exchange, reducing cytosolic Mg. This increases sodium uptake through a magnesium-sensitive NSCC in the apical membrane. Likewise, the reduction in magnesium uptake that follows ingestion of high potassium fodder may facilitate sodium absorption, as observed in studies of ruminal osmoregulation. Possibly, grass tetany (hypomagnesemia) is a side effect of this useful mechanism.

magnesium transport; nonselective cation channel; sodium absorption; rumen

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