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  • Title: [Absorption of arginine-vasopressin and arginine-vasotocin in small intestine of the frog Rana temporaria].
    Author: Prutskova NP, Seliverstova EV.
    Journal: Zh Evol Biokhim Fiziol; 2012; 48(1):54-62. PubMed ID: 22567976.
    Abstract:
    Experiments in vitro demonstrated a partial absorption of arginine-vasopressin (AVP) in the frog small intestine. Dynamics and efficiency of the nonapeptide absorption are studied with use of hydroosmotic method of recording of the osmotic permeability of the frog urinary bladder epithelium and immunoenzyme analysis. In the process of absorption there were preserved intactness of the hormone cyclic structure and its physiological activity, like in the case of the arginine-vasotocin (AVT) absorption. The AVP absorption increased at its administration into the gut with inhibitor of proteases. By methods of immunoelectron and immunofluorescent microscopy with use of polyclonal antibody to AVP, location of the label to the hormone was shown in the enterocyte cytoplasm. Thus, there was obtained a morphological evidence for the AVP absorption and transepithelial transfer in the frog small intestine. These data enlarge the concept of the poorly studied properties of the absorbing epithelium of the vertebrate intestine with respect to absorption of intact molecules of polypeptides.
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