title: [Cholesterol localization in the membranes of granular cells in the bladder epithelium of the frog during stimulated water transport].
abstract: The polyene antibiotic filipin has been used to characterize the cholesterol distribution in the membranes of resting and ADH-stimulated frog urinary bladder in freeze-fracture replicas. In general, the intracellular membranes takes up filipin only insignificantly. An exception is the cholesterol rich granule membrane. Both density and polarity of filipin-induced deformations were evaluated, and the asymmetry in membrane cholesterol was analysed. Upon ADH-stimulation of water flow both density and polarity of filipin-induced deformations altered differently in apical and basolateral regions of the plasma membrane. This difference is presumably due to the stretching of the basolateral membrane as a result of swelling, on the one hand, and to incorporation of aggregate containing membranes into the apical membrane, on the other one. The results obtained may suggest that the appearance of ADH-induced intramembranous particle aggregates in the apical membrane be accompanied with a relative cholesterol decrease in this apical membrane.
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Kever
authors.forename: Ia Iu
authors.initials: IaIu
authors.lastname: Komissarchik
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Korolev
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000378:metabolism*; D004848:Epithelium / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005372:Filipin / Q000494:pharmacology; D005614:Freeze Fracturing; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D011896:Rana temporaria; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014667:Vasopressins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D014667:Vasopressins; D005372:Filipin; D002784:Cholesterol
vernacular_title: Lokalizatsiia kholesterina v membranakh granuliarnykh kletok épiteliia mochevogo puzyria liagushki pri stimulirovannom transporte vody.