Passive water flows driven across the isolated rabbit ileum by osmotic, hydrostatic and electrical gradients.
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 360 (1) , 27-50
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1985.sp015602
Abstract
Water flows generated by osmotic and hydrostatic pressure and electrical currents were measured in sheets of isolated rabbit ileum at 20 degrees C. Flows across the mucosal and serosal surfaces were monitored continuously by simultaneous measurement of tissue volume change (with an optical lever) and net water flows across one surface of the tissue (with a capacitance transducer). Osmotic gradients were imposed across the mucosal and serosal surfaces of the tissue separately, using probe molecules of various sizes from ethanediol (68 Da) to dextrans (161 000 Da). Flows across each surface were elicited with very short delay. The magnitudes of the flows were proportional to the osmotic gradient and related to the size of the probe molecule. Osmotic flow across the mucosal surface was associated with streaming potentials which were due to electro‐osmotic water flow. The mucosal surface is a heteroporous barrier with narrow (0.7 nm radius, Lp (hydraulic conductivity) = (7.6 +/‐ 1.6) X 10(‐9) cm s‐1 cmH2O‐1) cation‐selective channels in parallel with wide neutral pores (ca. 6.5 nm radius, Lp = (2.3 +/‐ 0.2) X 10(‐7) cm s‐1 cmH2O‐1) which admit large pressure‐driven backflows from the submucosa to the lumen. There is additional evidence for a further set of narrow electroneutral pores less than 0.4 nm radius with Lp less than 7 X 10(‐9) cm s‐1 cmH2O‐1. The serosal surface has neutral pores of uniform radius (ca. 6.5 nm), Lp = (7.6 +/‐ 1.6) X 10(‐8) cm s‐1 cmH2O‐1. Hypertonic serosal solutions (100 mM‐sucrose) cause osmotic transfer of fluid from isotonic mucosal solutions into the submucosa, expand it, and elevate the tissue pressure to 19.6 +/‐ 3.2 cmH2O (n = 4). Conversely, hypertonic mucosal solutions (100 mM‐sucrose) draw fluid out of the submucosa in the presence of isotonic serosal solutions, collapse the submucosa, and lower the tissue pressure to ‐87.7 +/‐ 4.6 cmH2O (n = 5). Water flows coupled to cation movement could be generated across the mucosal surface in both directions by brief direct current pulses. The short latency of onset and cessation of flow (less than 2 s), absence of polarization potentials, and high electro‐osmotic coefficients (range 50‐520 mol water F‐1), together with the presence of streaming potentials during osmotically generated water flows indicate electro‐osmotic water flow through hydrated channels in the tight junctions and/or lateral intercellular spaces.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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