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  • Title: Extracellular acidification at the surface of depolarized voltage-clamped snail neurones detected with eccentric combination pH microelectrodes.
    Author: Thomas RC.
    Journal: Can J Physiol Pharmacol; 1987 May; 65(5):1001-5. PubMed ID: 3621027.
    Abstract:
    A new design of double micropipette was used to measure intracellular pH, membrane potential, and surface pH of superfused snail neurones. A third double micropipette was used to control the membrane potential via a CsCl-filled barrel and inject HCl iontophoretically. In one series of experiments the surface pH fell by up to one-third of a pH unit when the membrane potential was clamped to 20 mV, pHi was initially 6.7, and extracellular pH was about 7.4 in a medium buffered either with 2 mM HEPES or 2.7% CO2 and 20 mM bicarbonate. In a second series in which surface pH was observed during brief depolarizations to different potentials with different pHi, the potential at which the surface began to acidify varied with pHi with a slope of 32 mV per pH unit. The results confirm that H+ ions leave depolarized snail neurones if the electrochemical gradient is favourable and show that CO2-bicarbonate buffered solutions have a low effective extracellular buffering power for rapid additions of acid.
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