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  • Title: Furosemide-sensitive potassium efflux in cultured mouse fibroblasts.
    Author: Jayme DW, Slayman CW, Adelberg EA.
    Journal: J Cell Physiol; 1984 Jul; 120(1):41-8. PubMed ID: 6736136.
    Abstract:
    Transfer of LM(TK-) cells from normal growth medium to medium lacking K+ leads to a rapid loss of intracellular K+, which is 50-70% inhibited by furosemide or bumetanide. The diuretic-sensitive component of K+ efflux requires both Na+ and Cl-, and is presumably mediated by a K+, Na+, Cl- cotransport system of the kind described in avian erythrocytes and Ehrlich ascites cells. It can be calculated that such a system should be near equilibrium under normal growth conditions but should mediate net efflux (as observed) when the driving force is altered by reducing extracellular K+. The diuretic-sensitive component of net K+ efflux is also sensitive to amiloride. This effect is probably indirect, however, with amiloride acting to block the Na+ influx that supplies Na+ to the cotransport system. At the low extracellular K+ concentrations employed in these studies, the diuretic-sensitive system is a physiologically important pathway of K+ loss. The rate of growth in low-K+ medium can be increased (or the rate of cell lysis decreased) by adding diuretic or by reducing external Na+ or Cl-.
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