31-P NMR studies of intracellular pH (pH/sub i/) of the in vitro resting rat diaphragm (D) exposed to hypercapnia (HC), plus amiloride (HCA)
The authors have previously reported that the pH/sub i/ of the resting rat D in vitro fell when exposed to HC. Since pH/sub i/ influences cellular functions, it is important to understand mechanisms whereby a tissue maintains its pH/sub i/ One mechanism reported to exist in some vertebrate tissues is a sodium-proton pump which is inhibited by amiloride. If the rat D had the Na/sup +/-H/sup +/ pump, the resting rat D pH/sub i/, when exposed to hypercapnia, would decrease more if amiloride was present than if there was no amiloride. The D was placed in a 25 mm NMR sample tube and superfused with buffer gassed with 95%O/sub 2/-5%CO/sub 2/ at 37/sup 0/C. Two 15 minute pulsed Fourier transform spectra were acquired at 72.89 MHz using 2 sec repetition rate during normocapnia. The D was next superfused for 60 minutes with buffer gassed with 80%O/sub 2/-20%CO/sub 2/ and containing 5 x 10/sup -4/M amiloride (n=5; HCA) or not (n=8; HC). Four 15 minute spectra were obtained; pH/sub i/ was determined from the chemical shift of P/sub i/ resonance. The pH/sub i/ (X vector +/- SE) of HC D's fell from 7.14 +/- .04 to 6.85 +/- .05 at 1 hour of exposure. The pH/sub i/ of HCA D's fell from 6.95 +/- .05 to 6.57 +/- .03. The decrease in pH/sub i/ during hypercapnia is significantly greater (P<0.01) for HCA D's. These data suggest that the rat D uses a Na/sup +/-H/sup +/ pump to regulate pH/sub i/ and that this pump operates in the in vitro resting rat D exposed to hypercapnia.
- Research Organization:
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
- OSTI ID:
- 6829600
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8604222-; TRN: 87-011188
- Journal Information:
- Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 45:4; Conference: 70. annual meeting of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, St. Louis, MO, USA, 13 Apr 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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