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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 t-3 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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Ullrich, K.J., Papavassiliou, F. Bicarbonate reabsorption in the papillary collecting duct of rats. Pflugers Arch. 389, 271–275 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00584789
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