title: Characterization of cell volume-sensitive chloride currents in freshly prepared and cultured pancreatic acinar cells from early postnatal rats.
abstract: 1. In freshly prepared and cultured exocrine pancreatic acinar cells from 5- to 7-day-old rats a chloride-selective membrane conductance could be activated by intracellular application of GTPgammaS (40-100 microM), by application of positive pressure (5 cmH2O) to the pipette interior or by challenging the cells with a hyposmolar bath solution. Hyperosmolar bath solutions inhibited the cell volume-sensitive chloride currents. 2. The anion permeability sequence of the cell volume-sensitive chloride conductance was I- > Cl- approximately Br- > F- > methanesulphonate- > glutamate-. I- had a higher permeability but lower conductance than Cl-. The permeability ratio for Pglutamate/PCl was 0.12. 3. The cell volume-sensitive chloride conductance showed outward rectification. Membrane depolarization to high positive voltages (>= +60 mV) caused a time-dependent decay in outward currents. 4. DIDS (4, 4'-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid) and SITS (4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid) reversibly inhibited the cell volume-sensitive chloride current in a voltage-dependent manner. NPPB (5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoic acid), quinidine, quinine and tamoxifen caused voltage-independent current inhibition. 5. Combined fura-2 and whole-cell current measurements showed that activation of the cell volume-sensitive chloride current does not involve cytosolic Ca2+ signals. Furthermore, there is no evidence that Ca2+-activated chloride currents play a significant role in cultured pancreatic acinar cells from 5- to 7-day-old rats. 6. Polymerase chain reaction followed by DNA sequence analysis indicated the presence of mRNA homologous to the ClC-3 chloride channel in pancreatic tissue from 5-day-old rats.
authors.affiliation: 2. Physiologisches Institut, Universitat des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany.schmid@med-ph.uni-sb.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krause
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000502:physiology; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D018118:Chloride Channels / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000235:genetics; D002712:Chlorides / Q000502:physiology*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D010179:Pancreas / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D018118:Chloride Channels; D002712:Chlorides; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D002118:Calcium