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Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688
Because of its possible importance to the etiology of cystic
fibrosis lung disease, the ion and water transport properties of
tracheal epithelium were studied. Net liquid flux
(JV) across porcine tracheal epithelium was
measured in vitro using blue dextran as a volume probe. Luminal
instillation of isosmotic sucrose solution (280 mM) induced a small net
secretion of liquid (7.0 ± 1.7 nl · cm
2 · s
1), whereas
luminal hyposmotic sucrose solutions (220 or 100 mM) induced
substantial and significant (P < 0.05) liquid
absorption (34.5 ± 12 and 38.1 ± 7.3 nl · cm
2 · s
1,
respectively). When the luminal solution was normal (isosmotic) Krebs
buffer, liquid was absorbed at 10.2 ± 1.1 nl · cm
2 · s
1. Absorptive
JV was abolished by 100 µM amiloride in the
luminal solution and significantly reduced when the luminal solution
was Na+-free Krebs solution. Absorptive
JV was not significantly affected by 300 µM
5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoate or 100 µM
diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid, both cystic fibrosis transmembrane
conductance regulator protein (CFTR) inhibitors, in the instillate but
was significantly reduced by 60% when the luminal solution was
Cl
-free Krebs solution. We conclude that water freely
permeates porcine tracheal epithelium and that absorption of liquid is
normally driven by active transcellular Na+ transport and
does not require the CFTR.
fluid transport; cystic fibrosis; cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein; pig trachea; chloride channels
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