The effects of alterations in the external sodium concentration on human leucocyte sodium and potassium transport in vitro

1981 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Hilton ◽  
Valerie E. Johnson ◽  
R. B. Jones ◽  
J. Patrick
1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Sréter ◽  
Sydney M. Friedman

After running a distance of 100 meters in 7 minutes, untrained rats showed a rise in plasma potassium and a fall in plasma sodium as measured in tail vein samples. These changes are in accord with in vitro observations of the effects of exercise on isolated muscle preparations and similarly are taken to indicate a gain of sodium and a loss of potassium by the exercised muscles in the whole animal. Within 10 minutes of completion of the exercise, plasma sodium concentration was restored to normal while potassium was restored within 20 minutes. Exercise was accompanied by a fall in haematocrit, which remained low for up to 40 minutes. A period of 2 months of preliminary training modified the response to exercise. In these trained animals, a fall in sodium concentration occurred as before but the rise in potassium concentration was less in degree and the haematocrit did not change. It is suggested that the rate of increase of plasma potassium is an index of muscle efficiency while the height of plasma potassium is correlated with the fatigue limit of exercise.


1957 ◽  
Vol 190 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Laurence Wilson

Viable rabbit leucocytes have been obtained in quantities sufficient to permit direct chemical analyses of intracellular sodium and potassium concentrations. Treatment in vitro either with cortisone (10 or 20 mg/l.) or with desoxycorticosterone glycoside (10–80 mg/l.) led to a fall in intracellular potassium concentration and a reciprocal rise in intracellular sodium. There was an associated rise in intracellular water. After cortisone, the absolute change in sodium concentration slightly exceeded the reciprocal change in potassium; after desoxycorticosterone glycoside, the reverse was true.


1985 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie E. Johnson ◽  
P. J. Hilton

1. Frusemide-sensitive sodium and potassium transport by normal human leucocytes has been studied in vitro by both isotopic and net flux techniques. 2. In physiological media the leucocyte exhibits a frusemide-sensitive influx of sodium and potassium of equal magnitude compatible with a 1:1 co-transport system. 3. Cells exposed to zero external sodium and potassium (osmolality maintained with choline) demonstrated a frusemide-sensitive sodium and potassium efflux. 4. Frusemide-sensitive potassium influx was dependent on the presence of external sodium but frusemide-sensitive sodium influx persisted unchanged in the absence of external potassium. 5. Frusemide-sensitive potassium influx was dependent on external chloride but frusemide-sensitive sodium influx was chloride-independent. 6. These last two observations make it likely that the frusemide-sensitive pathway is capable of operating in modes other than sodium-potassium co-transport.


1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 333-338
Author(s):  
F. A. Sréter ◽  
Sydney M. Friedman

After running a distance of 100 meters in 7 minutes, untrained rats showed a rise in plasma potassium and a fall in plasma sodium as measured in tail vein samples. These changes are in accord with in vitro observations of the effects of exercise on isolated muscle preparations and similarly are taken to indicate a gain of sodium and a loss of potassium by the exercised muscles in the whole animal. Within 10 minutes of completion of the exercise, plasma sodium concentration was restored to normal while potassium was restored within 20 minutes. Exercise was accompanied by a fall in haematocrit, which remained low for up to 40 minutes. A period of 2 months of preliminary training modified the response to exercise. In these trained animals, a fall in sodium concentration occurred as before but the rise in potassium concentration was less in degree and the haematocrit did not change. It is suggested that the rate of increase of plasma potassium is an index of muscle efficiency while the height of plasma potassium is correlated with the fatigue limit of exercise.


1975 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 385-390
Author(s):  
P. J. Hilton ◽  
R. P. S. Edmondson ◽  
R. D. Thomas ◽  
J. Patrick

1. Sodium and potassium transport rates in human leucocytes were measured in vitro at different external potassium concentrations. 2. At nominally zero external potassium concentrations, the ouabain-sensitive sodium efflux was reduced to less than 20% of its maximum value. There was evidence that under these conditions a ouabain-sensitive sodium-sodium exchange occurs. 3. Both total and ouabain-insensitive potassium influx increased with increasing external potassium concentration. The ouabain-sensitive potassium influx showed saturation. 4. Ouabain-insensitive potassium efflux was also stimulated by increasing the external potassium concentration, suggesting significant potassium-potassium exchange at physiological external potassium concentrations.


1976 ◽  
Vol 230 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
JF Boudry ◽  
LC Stoner ◽  
MB Burg

In order to determine the effect of acid lumen pH on renal tubular potassium transport, cortical collecting tubules were dissected from rabbit kidneys and perfused in vitro. When the pH of the perfusate was lowered from 7.4 to 6.8, potassium secretion into the tubule lumen decreased by an average of 47%. The transepithelial voltage increased from a mean value of -32 mV (lumen negative) at pH 7.4 to -51 mV at PH 6.8. Net sodium absorption from the tubule lumen was essentially unchanged (5% mean decrease). Transepithelial voltage and potassium secretion returned to control values when the pH of the perfusate was raised to 7.4. Alterations in pH of the bath had no comparable effect on the transepithelial voltage, whether the bath pH was increased or decreased. We conclude that a decrease in the pH of the tubule fluid of itself inhibits active potassium secretion in this tubule segment, providing an additional explanation for the decrease in potassium excretion found in acidosis. The negative voltage (presumably caused by sodium absorption out of the lumen) is increased under these conditions, possibly because of reduction of a smaller counterbalancing positive voltage caused by potassium secretion into the lumen.


Author(s):  
P Bijster ◽  
H L Vader ◽  
C L J Vink

We have shown that the sodium concentration in whole blood measured by direct potentiometry is higher than in plasma. The ‘erythrocyte-effect’, already described by Siggaard Andersen, is most pronounced for instruments equipped with a reference electrode with an open static liquid junction and is thus a general phenomenon. Instruments with a modified liquid junction show less interference. The same phenomenon appears for the determination of the potassium concentration, although the difference between whole blood and plasma, when measured with instruments equipped with a modified liquid junction, can be neglected in practice.


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