title: Effects of organic solutes on transmural PD and Na transport in freshwater prawn intestine.
abstract: Addition of 1 mM L-alanine or 0.5 mM D-glucose to the mucosal surface of freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) intestine rapidly increased transmural potential difference (PD) (serosa became more positive). Luminal perfusion with 1 mM D-alanine did not affect the spontaneous PD. Addition of 10 mM serosal L-alanine induced a slow elevation in PD with the same polarity as shown with luminal alanine. The alanine-evoked PD was a hyperbolic function of luminal alanine concentration and was reduced to zero with 0.5 mM serosal ouabain. Luminal 1 mM L-alanine stimulated JNanet from mucosa to serosa from 1.29 +/- 0.45 to 2.83 +/- 0.66 mu mol . cm-2 . h-1. Extensive metabolic breakdown of L-alanine and D-glucose occurred during intestinal transit resulting in a small, but significant, net flux of unaltered sugar from lumen to blood (103.9 +/- 23.1 nmol . cm-2 . h-1) and an absence of net amino acid flow. While 1 mM alanine influx into the epithelium was largely Na dependent, quantitatively insigificant amounts of Na were cotransported into the cell with amino acid (approx 52 nmol . cm-2 . h-1) to account for increased JNanet observed in the presence of this organic solute. Electrogenic effects of luminal nutrients result from their catabolism to fuels for the basolateral Na pump, Increased Na-pump activity stimulates Na entry into the cell by allosteric apical carrier proteins and enhances transmural PD by accelerating net movement of cation across the tissue.
mesh_terms: D000409:Alanine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active / Q000187:drug effects; D033364:Decapoda / Q000502:physiology*; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007408:Intestinal Absorption / Q000187:drug effects; D007422:Intestines / Q000502:physiology*; D008433:Mathematics; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects*; D010042:Ouabain / Q000494:pharmacology; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010042:Ouabain; D012964:Sodium; D005947:Glucose; D000409:Alanine