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  • Title: Glucose depolarizes villous but not crypt cell apical membrane potential difference: a micropuncture study of crypt-villus heterogeneity in the rat.
    Author: Stewart CP, Turnberg LA.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1987 Sep 03; 902(3):293-300. PubMed ID: 3620462.
    Abstract:
    Brush-border membrane potentials and fractional resistances have been recorded from enterocytes at different points along the crypt-villus axis of rat ileum in vitro. Microelectrode impalements were obtained under visual control and brush-border membrane potentials were higher in crypt than in villous cells (-57 +/- 1.6 against -50 +/- 1.6 mV referred to the mucosal side). Replacing mannitol with D-glucose in the mucosal perfusate resulted in a rise in transmural potential difference (0.5 +/- 0.17 to 1.0 +/- 0.21 mV (n = 37)) and apical membrane potential was depolarized. This occurred consistently only in the upper two-thirds of the villus (-54 +/- 1.7 to -47 +/- 2.3 mV (n = 17)) and not in crypt cells (-56 +/- 2.6 to -57 +/- 2.4 mV (n = 10) or at the crypt-villus junction. The glucose-induced apical membrane depolarization in villous enterocytes was blocked by phlorizin, a competitive inhibitor of sodium-dependent glucose uptake (-50 +/- 2.1 to -53 +/- 2.8 mV (n = 9) in the presence of phlorizin and glucose). Transmural resistance, Rt, and fractional resistance, FR, were unaltered by glucose (61 +/- 3.4 to 61 +/- 3.5 omega X cm2 (n = 50] and (0.60 +/- 0.06 to 0.57 +/- 0.06 (n = 17]. This micro-puncture technique provides direct evidence for functional differentiation along the crypt-villus axis and indicates that active electrogenic accumulation of glucose is confined to villous epithelium.
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