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  • 21
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Key words Homocystinuria ; Excitotoxicity ; Organotypic cultures ; Xenopus oocytes
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The excitotoxic action of homocysteine and related sulphur-containing metabolites was investigated in organotpyic cultures derived from rat brain cortex and hippocampus by inhibition experiments using antagonists selective for different glutamate receptor subtypes. In addition the direct interaction of these metabolites with glutamate receptors expressed in frog oocytes was tested by conventional two electrode voltage clamp techniques. Conclusion Neurodegeneration and epilepsy observed in homocystinuria may be mediated by l-homocysteic and l-homocysteine sulphinic acid. Both metabolites exhibit excitotoxic potency by interaction with different glutamate receptor subtypes.
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  • 22
    ISSN: 1432-1203
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The distribution of DNA haplotype constellations within the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene was investigated in 44 German families affected with phenylketonuria (PKU). The haplotype frequencies differed significantly from those observed in a Danish population. Furthermore, ten haplotypes were identified in addition to the 12 previously described. In one of ten PKU alleles linked to haplotype 3, the G to A transition at the 5′ splice donor site of intron 12 could not be confirmed with the use of synthetic DNA probes. According to these data, which are still limited, carrier testing and prenatal diagnosis should be possible in 70% of individuals at risk in the German population.
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  • 23
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    Pflügers Archiv 389 (1981), S. 271-275 
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Adaptation, HCO 3 − transport ; Glycodiazine transport ; Metabolic acidosis ; Metabolic alkalosis ; Acetazolamide ; SITS ; Potassium deficiency
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Using the technique of capillary perfusion and simultaneous luminal stop flow microperfusion the reabsorption of bicarbonate and glycodiazine from the papillary collecting duct was evaluated. Starting with equal H14CO 3 − and3H-glycodiazine concentrations in the luminal and peritubular perfusates, the decrease in the luminal concentration at 10 and 45 s contact time was measured. In control rats with 25 mmol/l HCO 3 − in the perfusates the rate of HCO 3 − reabsorption calculated from the 10 s values was 0.34 nmol cm−2s−1. In acute metabolic acidosis, the rate of bicarbonate reabsorption was 2,3 times higher. In metabolic alkalosis, the rate of bicarbonate absorption dropped to 13% of the control values. Also the 45 s values of acidotic and alkalotic animals differed significantly from each other. With 25 mmol/l glycodiazine in both perfusates the rate of biffer reabsorption as calculated from the 10 s values was 0.76 nmol cm−2s−1 in control rats and did not deviate significantly from this value in acidotic and alkalotic animals. In control rats the bicarbonate reabsorption in % was the same, no matter whether both luminal and capillary perfusate contained 25 mmol/l bicarbonate or 10 mmol/l. In acidotic rats the rate of HCO 3 − reabsorption did not change significantly if all Na+ in the perfusates was replaced by choline (0.88 versus 0.79 nmol cm−2s−1 at 25 mmol/l HCO 3 − ). When in acidotic rats 0.1 mmol/l acetazolamide or 1 mmol/l SITS (4-acetamido-4′-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid) was added to both perfusates the rate of HCO 3 − reabsorption dropped by 75 and 58%, respectively. A potassium deficient diet for one week and DOCA administration had no influence on the bicarbonate reabsorption of rats which were on standard diet. The data indicate that (1) the buffer reabsorption from the papillary collecting duct is rather due to H+ ion secretion than to buffer anion reabsorption. (2) The adaptation to metabolic acidosis and alkalosis is specific for bicarbonate and not seen with glycodiazine. (3) Within the concentration range tested the HCO 3 − reabsorption rises linearly with the HCO 3 t- concentration. (4) The HCO 3 − reabsorption in the papillary collecting duct is Na+-independent, it can be inhibited by acetazolamide and SITS, but is not influenced by K+-deficient diet plus DOCA.
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  • 24
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    Pflügers Archiv 404 (1985), S. 300-306 
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Epithelial transport ; Contraluminal cell membrane
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In order to study the specificity for the contraluminal sulfate transport system the inhibitory potency of disulfonates, di-, tricarboxylates and sulfocarboxylates on the35SO 4 2− influx from the interstitium into cortical tubular cells in situ has been determined. The following was found: 1) Methane- and ethane-disulfonate as well as benzene-1,3-disulfonate inhibit contraluminal35SO 4 2− influx (with an (app.K i of 〈6 mmol/l), while benzene-1,2- and 1,4-disulfonate do not. 2) The inhibitory potency of 1,3-benzene disulfonate is slightly augmented by an additional NH2 − or OH-group in position 4. However, OH-groups at position 4 and 5 or 4 and 6 abolish the inhibitory potency. 3) The naphthalene disulfonates tested inhibit only if they have an OH-group in ortho-position to one SO3H group. 4) The stilbene disulfonates H2DIDS and DNDS inhibit the contraluminal35SO 4 2− influx with high (app.K i≈0.8 mmol/l), DADS with lower potency (app.K i≈6 mmol/l). 5) Amongst the tested aliphatic di- and tricarboxylates inhibition was exerted by oxalate (app.K i 1.1 mmol/l) and maleate (app.K i 3.8 mmol/l), but not by malonate, hydroxymalonate and citrate. 6) Out of the tested benzenedicarboxylates only those inhibit which have the COO−-groups directly on the ring in 1,2 and 1,3 position (app.K i 4.0 and 2.7 mmol/l), but not in the 1,4 position. An additional OH-group in position 4 augments the inhibitory potency of 1,3 benzene-dicarboxylates (app.K i 0.8 mmol/l), while an OH group on position 5 abolishes it. 7) The benzene tricarboxylates (BTC) inhibit in the sequence 1,2,3-BTC〉1,3,5-BTC〉1,2,4-BTC (app.K i 0.9, 1.5 and 4.2 mmol/l, respectively). 8) The carboxy-benzene-sulfonates inhibit also in the 1,2 and 1,3 position only (app.K i 6.7 and 5 mmol/l), but not in the 1,4 position. Addition of an −OH-group to the 3-carboxy-1-benzene-sulfonate forming 4-hydroxy-3-carboxy-1-benzene-sulfate augments the inhibitory potency drastically (app.K i 0.32 mmol/l), while a NH2 substitution at the same position leaves it unchanged (app.K i 4.7 mmol/l). If, however, ethylamine instead of NH2 is used as substituent, the inhibitory potency is almost as high as of 4-hydroxy-3-carboxy-1-benzene-sulfonate (app.K i≈0.6 mmol/l). Amongst the dicarboxy-benzene-sulfonates, 3,4-carboxy-benzene-1-sulfonate inhibits (app.K i ca. 2 mmol/l), while 3,5-carboxy-benzene-1-sulfonate does not. The data indicate that a strong interaction of substrate with the sulfate transporter is given, when two charged groups (COO− and/or SO 3 − ) are present in a distance equivalent to the meta-position on the benzene ring and an additional hydrogen bond forming OH- or −NH-group. Hydrogen bond forming groups and charged groups in other positions usually abolish the inhibitory potency.
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  • 25
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Kidney cortex structure ; Tissue compartments ; Transport models ; Inhibitory kinetics ; Facilitated diffusion
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In order to study the transport of dicarboxylic acids through the contraluminal cell membrane of proximal tubular cells,3H-methylsuccinate has been synthetized by catalytic hydration of methylfumarate. As the chromatography of radioactive material excreted in the urine after i.v. injection of3H-methylsuccinate shows, no metabolite is detectable during the first 3 min. After 10 min, less than 10% of the excreted radiolabel is metabolized. To measure the contraluminal influx of3H-methylsuccinate from the interstitium into cortical tubular cells, the renal vessels were clamped so that the proximal tubular lumina collapsed. Then Ringer solution was injected into the blood capillaries. It contained different concentrations of3H-methylsuccinate and14C-inulin as extracellular space marker. After contact times between 1 and 10 s, this fluid was withdrawn from the capillaries and the disappearance of3H-methylsuccinate relative to14C-inulin was measured. The morphological compartments in the outer cortex of the clamped glutaraldehyde-fixed kidney were evaluated by a stereological method. For proximal tubular cells a ratio of extracellular water space to intracellular space of 1:3.1 and a ratio extracellular water space to free cell water space of 1:2 was found. It was tested whether the experimental disappearance curves with 4 different starting concentrations of3H-methylsuccinate fit with the data from four model calculations. It was found that the data and the conditions of transport are consistent with the predictions of a facilitated diffusion model. In this model, a transport coefficient occurs which depends on the concentration of3H-methylsuccinate following saturation kinetics. The calculated parameters wer:K m for3H-methylsuccinate=0.12 mmol/l,J max=0.50 pmol/s ·cm (related to tubular length in cm). Furthermore, equations are given to calculate inhibitory constantsK i of competing dicarboxylic acids.
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  • 26
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    Pflügers Archiv 407 (1986), S. 488-492 
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Lactate ; Pyruvate ; 3-hydroxybutyrate ; Acetoacetate ; Nonspecific anion channel
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In order to study the characteristic of contraluminal transport of hydrophylic small fatty acids the in situ stopped flow microperfusion technique [12] has been applied. By measuring with 4 s contact time the decrease in the contraluminal concentration of the respective radiolabelled substances the concentration dependence of the influx into the cortical cells was tested. The 4 s decrease in contraluminal concentration of chloroacetate,l-lactate,d-lactate, 3-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate was between 26% and 31%. For each substance the percent decrease was the same, no matter whether it was offered in a concentration of 0.1 or 10 mmol/l. Contraluminal disappearance of 0.1 mmol/ll-lactate was not influenced by 5 mmol/l H2DIDS, probenecid, phloretin, mersalyl or cyanocinnamate, but it was significantly (37%) inhibited by 5-nitro-2-(phenyl-propyl-amino) benzoate, a blocker of the nonspecific anion channel. The percent decrease in propionate uptake was somewhat larger — between 36% and 39% — but again not different at 0.01, 0.1, 1.0 and 10 mmol/l. With pyruvate the contraluminal decrease was 20% at 0.1 mmol/l and 31% at 10 mmol/l. The percent disappearance of the aromatic pyrazinoate was 38% and 34% at 0.1 and 10 mmol/l and for nicotinate 42% and 22%, respectively. The disappearance of nicotinate (0.1 mmol/l) was significantly inhibited by 10 mmol/l pyrazinoate and paraaminohippurate (PAH). The data are in agreement with the hypothesis that the hydrophilic small fatty acids traverse the contraluminal cell side by simple diffusion, possibly via the unspecific anion channel [14], pyruvate via the dicarboxylic acid pathway in a cooperative manner and pyrazinoate, as well as nicotinate, via the PAH pathway.
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  • 27
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Oxalate ; Succinate ; Glutarate ; 2-Oxoglutarate ; Citrate ; Sulfate
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In order to study the specificity for contraluminal para-aminohippurate (PAH) transport, the inhibitory potency of aliphatic dicarboxylates on3H-PAH influx, as well as the inhibitory effect on35SO 4 2− - and3H-succinate influx, from the interstitium into cortical tubular cells in situ has been determined. The following was found: 1. Testing a homologous series of dicarboxylates-ranging from the 2 C oxalate to the 10 C sebacate — PAH transport was inhibited by succinate (app.K i 1.35 mmol/l), and all longer dicarboxylates, with high potency (app.K i 0.05–0.35 mmol/l). Sulfate transport was inhibited only by oxalate (app.K i 1.1 mmol/l), while dicarboxylate transport was inhibited by succinate, glutarate, adipate and pimelate with decreasing potency (app.K i 0.04, 0.24, 0.91, 4.0 mmol/l, respectively). 2. PAH transport was inhibited by succinate and glutarate with high potency (app.K i 1.35 and 0.05 mmol/l), by the correspondent monomethylester to a lesser extent (app.K i 1.7 and 0.74 mmol/l), but not by the dimethylester. On the other hand, the semialdehyde of succinate with aK i-value of 1.2 mmol/l, had the same inhibitory potency as succinate itself, while the dialdehyde of glutarate (app.K i 1.4 mmol/l) was much less potent as glutarate. 3. Introduction of an oxo-, methyl- or sulfhydroxylgroup onto the 2-position of succinate, or of an oxo-group onto the 2-position of glutarate moderately augmented the inhibitory potency against PAH-uptake. However, introduction of a 2-hydroxy group onto succinate or glutarate in thel-position reduced the inhibitory potency more than in thed-position. Introduction of two methyl-, sulfhydryl- or hydroxyl-groups in the 2–3-position of succinate reduced or abolished its inhibitory potency. The introduction of a 2-amino group onto succinate or glutarate abolished its effect on PAH transport. However, N-acetylation or N-benzoylation led to a restitution in inhibitory potency. 4. The trans-isomers fumarate and mesaconate inhibited PAH- and methylsuccinate transport, while the cis-isomers maleate and citraconate did so to a lesser extent or not at all. The effect was reversed with the tricarboxylic aconitates, because cis-aconitate bears a CH2-extended COOH-group in trans-position and trans-aconitate in cis-position. The data indicate that there exist three different anion transport systems at the contraluminal cell side of the proximal renal tubule: 1. a sulfate-oxalate transporter, 2. a sodium-dependent dicarboxylate transporter, and 3. a paraaminohippurate transporter. The PAH transport system accepts dicarboxylates with chain length higher than 7.5 Å (=distance between the terminal oxygen atoms), while the dicarboxylate transport interacts with dicarboxylates with a chain length between 6.5 and 10 Å. Both transport systems prefer the transconfiguration. The effect of side groups on the interaction of dicarboxylates with the PAH-transport system is due mainly to hydrophobicity and electron configuration.
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  • 28
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    Pflügers Archiv 402 (1984), S. 264-271 
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Epithelial transport ; Contraluminal cell membrane ; Anion exchange
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In order to study contraluminal sulfate transport the influx rate of35SO 4 2− from the interstitium into cortical tubular cells has been determined. Preloading of the rat with sulfate augmented contraluminal35SO 4 2− influx; preperfusion with sulfate-free solutions diminished it. The contraluminal35SO 4 2− influx in sulfate-loaded animals followed two parameter kinetics (K m 1.4 mmol/l,J max 1.2 pmol·s−1·cm−1). The contraluminal35SO 4 2− influx (starting concentration 10 μmol/l) did not change when the K+ concentration was varied between 4 and 40 mmol/l and the Ca2+ concentration from zero to 3 mmol/l. Omission of Na+ from the perfusates augmented contraluminal35SO 4 2− influx markedly. The increase is larger at pH 6 than at pH 7.4. Changes of pH affect contraluminal35SO 4 2− influx only when the solutions are Na+- and K+-free. Under these conditions the35SO 4 2− influx decreased when the ambient pH was raised from pH 6.0 to pH 8.0. Thiosulfate, selenate, molybdate, oxalate, phosphate, arsenate, and bicarbonate exerted competitive inhibition, while formate, 2-oxoglutarate and paraaminohippurate showed a biphasic response: inhibition at 50 mmol/l, no inhibition at 150 mmol/l. Chloride and bicarbonate inhibited35SO 4 2− influx at 10 μmol/l35SO 4 2− , but augmented sulfate influx at 5 mmol/l35SO 4 2− concentration in rats not preloaded with sulfate. The data indicate the presence of a contraluminal sulfate transport system which is shared by a variety of inorganic and organic anions. The biphasic behaviour of some anions suggests parallel pathways leading to a cis-inhibition at small and trans-stimulation at high anion concentrations. Na+ and H+ may be cotransported or interact with the transport system at a modifier site.
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  • 29
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    Pflügers Archiv 372 (1977), S. 269-274 
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Renal tubule ; Phosphate transport ; Parathyroidectomy ; Parathyroid hormone ; Phosphate diet
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The standing droplet method was applied in combination with microperfusion of the peritubular blood capillaries to determine the build up of transtubular concentration differences of phosphate (Pi) in proximal convoluted tubules. As revealed in experiments with chronic parathyroidectomized (PTX) rats, the time dependent decrease of the intraluminal Pi concentration, or increase of transtubular Pi concentration difference ( $$\Delta {\text{c}}_{{\text{P}}_i }$$ ), changes along the proximal convolution in a ratio 4:2:1 in the first quarter: second plus third quarter: fourth quarter. In acute (〉2 h) PTX rats $$\Delta {\text{c}}_{{\text{P}}_i }$$ decreased by 31% in the first and by 41% in the fourth quarter of the convolution when parathyroid hormone (PTH; 5 U initially and 12 U/h continuously) was infused. In chronic (〉2 days) PTX rats the correspondent values of 17% and 29% were significantly smaller. When the rats were kept for 7–11 weeks on a low phosphate diet (〈0,15% P in the dry matter) their Pi transport was in the range of that of the PTX rats. PTH infusion, however, diminished the P i reabsorption rate in the fourth quarter of the convolution only, but not that in the early parts of the convolution. On the contrary, rats kept for the same time on a high phosphate diet (2%) showed all along the proximal convolution one by one third of the phosphate transport rate of animals on a low phosphate diet. Acute parathyroidectomy of the high P diet rats led to 51% increase in P i transport. The data show that 1. the phosphate transport decreases as a function of proximal convolution length, 2. PTH exerts a considerable inhibitory effect on P i transport only in acute PTX rats, while the effect in chronic PTX rats is rather small, 3. the P content of the diet inversely correlates with the P i transport. 4. further with low P diet the PTH inhibits P i transport in late, but not in early segments of the proximal convolution.
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  • 30
    ISSN: 1432-1998
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The development of radiological changes in two patients with mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Type I H/S is described. Radiological findings reveal enlargement of the sella in one patient, impression of the basilar skull in the other patient. Sclerosis and thickening of the base of skull was observed in both patients. The mandibular necks were short with striking flattening of the superior surfaces of the condyles, when the patients reached adult age. At the age of 12, hypertelorism and spaced teeth were already present in both patients. In addition, they showed early costal, clavicular and scapular changes, irregularities of the acromial joints and acetabulae, hypoplasia of the inferior portion of the iliac bones and flared iliac wings. The flat femurs had short metaphyses and were held in valgus position. Development of dentigerous cysts as well as mandibular changes seem to be rather specific for this variant ofα-L-iduronidase deficiency. In contrast to the classical form of MPS I, skeletal changes of the spine and hands are minimal.
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