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  • Title: Ion fluxes and electrical characteristics of the short-circuited rat colon in vitro.
    Author: Gazitúa S, Robinson JW.
    Journal: Pflugers Arch; 1982 Jul; 394(1):32-7. PubMed ID: 7122213.
    Abstract:
    The unidirectional fluxes of sodium and chloride across stripped rat colon mucosa were measured and compared with the electrical characteristics of the tissue under voltage-clamped conditions. The relationship between the serosal-mucosal fluxes of the two ions and an imposed potential revealed that the serosal-mucosal flux of sodium was entirely paracellular, whereas there was also a transcellular component of the corresponding chloride flux. In the absence of sodium, the short-circuit current and net chloride flux were abolished; in the absence of chloride, the net sodium flux was reduced but not abolished, and the short-circuit current was unchanged. From an analysis of the effects of the inhibitors, amiloride, theophylline, acetazolamide, furosemide and piretanide, a plausible model was developed to explain the characteristics of these transports. It was proposed that both membranes possess Cl-/HCO-3 antiports, though their sensitivities to inhibitors were different. There is also a Na+/Cl- symport and an electrogenic sodium entry mechanism in the brushborder membrane.
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