title: Volume-activated chloride current in pigmented ciliary epithelial cells.
abstract: To characterize the volume-activated Cl(-) current in bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial (PCE) cells, the whole-cell patch clamp technique was employed. Exposure to a hypotonic solution induced a volume-activated Cl(-) current. The activation of the current depended on intracellular ATP. The current showed a characteristic outward rectification. There was no, or negligible, time-dependent inactivation of the current. The current-voltage relationship showed that the reversal potential of the hypotonic-activated current ( 6.3 0.5 mV) was close to the calculated equilibrium potential for Cl(-) (ECl=0 mV). Extracellular ATP inhibited both outward and inward currents, but the inhibition of outward currents was larger than that of inward currents (92% vs 74%, P<0.01). The current was also blocked by extracellular application of tamoxifen, a Cl( ) channel inhibitor, the effects of which were almost equal for both outward and inward currents (85% vs 87%, P>0.05). The properties of this current are quite similar to those of the volume-activated Cl(-) current associated with P-glycoprotein in other cell types, suggesting that P-glycoprotein may be involved in the activation of the volume-activated Cl(-) current in PCE cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang 524023, China.CHENL1@cardiff.ac.uk
authors.forename: L X
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: L W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D018118:Chloride Channels / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D002712:Chlorides / Q000378:metabolism*; D002924:Ciliary Body / Q000166:cytology*; D004594:Electrophysiology; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D013629:Tamoxifen / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D018118:Chloride Channels; D002712:Chlorides; D013629:Tamoxifen; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate