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  • Title: Urea transport in initial IMCD of rats fed a low-protein diet: functional properties and mRNA abundance.
    Author: Ashkar ZM, Martial S, Isozaki T, Price SR, Sands JM.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1995 Jun; 268(6 Pt 2):F1218-23. PubMed ID: 7611462.
    Abstract:
    Feeding rats a low-protein (8%) diet (LPD) for 2 wk induces a facilitated urea transporter in rat initial inner medullary collecting ducts (IMCDs). To determine whether this is preceded by an increase in mRNA abundance, we designed degenerate polymerase chain reaction primers to the rabbit facilitated urea transporter (UT2; G. You, C. P. Smith, Y. Kanai, W.-S. Lee, M. Stelzner, and M. A. Hediger. Nature Lond. 365: 844-847, 1993) and amplified a 716-bp cDNA fragment to perform Northern analysis of the base or tip of rat inner medulla. In the base, the predominant transcript was a 2.9-kb band, which increased 55% after 1 wk on an LPD; there was no change in a 4-kb band. In the tip, the 4-kb band predominated, but neither band varied with an LPD. Next, we functionally characterized the induced urea transporter using microperfused initial IMCDs from rats fed an LPD for 2 wk. First, 100 pM arginine vasopressin (AVP) stimulated urea permeability (Purea); 10 nM AVP increased Purea further. Second, raising perfusate and bath osmolality to 690 mosmol/kgH2O (NaCl added) stimulated Purea; adding AVP (10 nM) increased Purea further. Third, thiourea reversibly inhibited AVP-stimulated Purea.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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