Albumin permeability of the peritubular capillaries in rat renal cortex.
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 279 (1) , 621-640
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1978.sp012365
Abstract
Two series of experiments were carried out to determine the premeability of the renal cortical peritubular capillaries to albumin under control conditions in the concentrating kidney and after an infusion of hypo-osmotic fluid amounting to 6% body weight. The turnover of the interstitial albumin pool of the renal cortex was studied. Specifically, the mean transit time of albumin molecules from arterial plasma to renal lymph was measured in 9 rats of each group. Mean values of 39.0 .+-. 2.8 and 30.6 .+-. 2.2 (SE [standard error] of mean) min were found for the control and infused groups, respectively. In the 2nd series of experiments the interstitial distribution volume of plasma albumin in renal cortex was determined in 23 control and 22 infused rats. Mean values of the extravascular distribution volumes were 1.66 .+-. 0.21 and 1.37 .+-. 0.18 (SEM) .mu.l/100 mg tissue, respectively. The unidirectional clearance of albumin from the capillary to the interstitium in the control and infused groups, respectively, was 7.1 .+-. 1.0 and 7.5 .+-. 0.9 (SEM) ml sec-1 10-4 in 100 g cortical tissue. For the reabsorbing surface of the peritubular capillaries in the renal cortex, a lower bound was calculated for .sigma., the reflexion coefficient of albumin. The reflexion coefficient was higher than 0.998 under both experimental conditions.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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