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Natochin YuV

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Prostaglandin-dependent osmotic water permeability of the frog and trout urinary bladder.

Washout of autacoids from serosal Ringer solution, using a repeated change of the solution of the frog and trout urinary bladder, was accompanied by a pronounced rise in the osmotic water permeability: the water transport in the frog rose from 0.05 +/- 0.02 to 1.21 +/- 0.26 microliter min-1.cm-2, in the trout, from 0.041 +/- 0.011 to 0.26 +/- 0.034 microliter min-1.cm-2. Such an increase in the osmotic water permeability in the trout and frog urinary bladder occurred in the background of a decrease in the prostaglandin E2 concentration in the serosal Ringer solution. This permeability increase was accompanied by the formation of aggregates of intramembranous particles in the apical plasma membrane of the trout and frog urinary bladder. A decrease in the osmotic water permeability was achieved by the addition to the serosal Ringer solution of 10-8 M prostaglandin. Experiments on the frog urinary bladder have shown that prostaglandins E1, I2 and F2 alpha also decrease the osmotic water permeability. Vasotocin increased the osmotic water permeability in the frog urinary bladder but did not affect the osmotic water permeability of the trout urinary bladder. The data obtained indicates a role of the endogenous prostaglandin production in maintaining the low osmotic water permeability in the frog and trout urinary bladder. A suggestion is made that in the vertebrate evolution, colonisation of the fresh-water was connected with the maintenance of the low osmotic water permeability via participation of prostaglandins, whereas the vasotocin hydroosmotic effect developed in the vertebrate evolution later and provided for the possibility of the water absorption, osmotic homeostasis and animal migration from fresh-water to the land.

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Evolutionary physiology: history, principles.

1) The history of comparative and evolutionary physiology since the early XIX century is given; 2) The methods of evolutionary physiology are described; 3) Principles of the evolution of function are discussed at every level of physiological organization (cellular, functional units of the organ, the organ itself, functional systems) as they apply to the kidney and to the regulation of salt and water balance; and 4) General questions of evolutionary physiology covering physico-chemical factors in evolution of functions, the development of the integrity of an organism, the origin of physiological adaptation, the development of interconnection of physiological systems are discussed.

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Lithium transport in the chicken and marine teleost kidney.

The clearance ratio-C(Li)/C(ln) (Excretion Fraction of Lithium-EFLi) in the cod (Gadus morrhua L.) kidney amounts to 15.1 +/- 4.7, in the black sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius L.) kidney, to 6.88 +/- 1.22, which indicates secretion of lithium by the marine teleost kidney. A direct correlation has been found between EFLi and EFMg. Injection of furosemide (15 mg/kg B.W.) increase while injection of the 20% para-amino-hippurate solution (1.6 ml/kg B.W.) does not change EFLi in the cod kidney. Infusion of 10 mM LiNO3 in the 0.9% NaCl solution (3.5 ml/kg B.W.) into the chicken (Gallus domesticus L.) left v. saphena produces, owing to the lithium inflow into the renoportal system, a marked unilateral increase of the renal lithium excretion. Infusion of 10% NaCl solution (3.5 ml/kg B.W.) together with 10 mM LiNO3 into the chicken left v. saphena is accompanied by a more pronounced ipsilateral increase of the lithium excretion and EFLi. The data obtained indicate diversity of mechanisms (glomerular filtration, reabsorption and secretion) participating in the renal lithium excretion in the animals studied.

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Vasopressin V1-antagonist increases the hydroosmotic response to arginine vasopressin in frog urinary bladder.

V1-antagonist, [Mca1, D-Phe2, Sar7] arginine vasopressin, at a concentration 0.5 nM to 5 nM increased hydroosmotic effect of 5 nM arginine vasopressin in frog urinary bladder. 1 nM V1-antagonist [Mca1, O-Me-Tyr2] arginine vasopressin does not changed hydroosmotic effect of 0.1 nM dibutyryl cAMP. We suggest that-both V1- and V2-receptors are present on epithelial cells of frog urinary bladder and that V1-receptors are involved in the modulation of the hydroosmotic effect of arginine vasopressin-mediated by V2-receptors. by V2-receptors.

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Does the gradual hydroosmotic response to antidiuretic hormone depend on intracellular cAMP accumulation or on the formation of intramembrane particle aggregates?

In experiments on frog urinary bladder the mechanisms behind the gradual development of a hydroosmotic reaction to antidiuretic hormone (ADH) were investigated. It was suggested that the velocity of hydroosmotic reaction may be limited by (a) formation and insertion of particle aggregates into the apical membrane or (b) by velocity of cAMP formation. The urinary bladders were exposed to 23 nM ADH for different times (from 1 to 20 min) and water flow was measured over a period of 40 min. It was found that the value of the full hydroosmotic response increased progressively with the time of exposure to the hormone; however, the enhancement of water flow was equal during each time interval before reaching the reaction maximum. A direct correlation between the value of ADH-stimulated water flow, cAMP content in bladder tissue and frequency of particle aggregates in the granular cell apical membrane was observed. The content of cAMP in ADH-treated bladders was higher by 80% in the absence than in the presence of an osmotic gradient. Pretreatment of urinary bladders with 50 microM cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase inhibitor, 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, significantly accelerated the development of the hydroosmotic reaction and increased the magnitude of water flow in comparison with the effect of ADH only. No changes in cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity were found in the urinary bladder homogenates under the action of ADH, so it seems likely that accumulation of cAMP depends only on the increase of adenylate cyclase activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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The influence of amlodipine and verapamil on ion and water transport in the nephron, skin and urinary bladder of amphibians.

1. The addition of amlodipine or verapamil into the lumen of the newt distal tubule led to the decrease of reabsorption of Na, Cl, Ca and of fluid. 2. The application of amlodipine to the outside of the frog skin caused large increases in potential difference (PD) and short circuit (SCC) similar to what is seen with Co2+. If both amlodipine and Co2+ were applied simultaneously to the outer surface the increases in PD and SCC were additive. 3. Verapamil added to the outer surface of the skin caused a reduction in PD which could be overcome by subsequent addition of amlodipine. 4. After addition of amlodipine to serosal or mucosal surfaces of the frog urinary bladder, the ability of vasopressin to increase osmotic permeability was markedly attenuated. 5. It is likely that the calcium channel blockers used here not only affect intracellular calcium levels by inhibiting entry through calcium channels, but they may also alter calcium dependent processes within the plasma membranes which modulate sodium transfer across epithelia.

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Mechanism of postflight decline in osmotic concentration of urine in cosmonauts.

The ratio of reabsorption of osmotically free water to osmolal clearance in individual urine voids was about the same before and after short-term spaceflights (the points fall on the same regression line). This ratio was reduced after long-term flights, so that the regression lines for pre- and postflight values have different slopes. This change in the function relating the two factors was accompanied by increased vasopressin in blood plasma and probably was caused by altered cellular reaction to vasopressin. The decrease in the effect of vasopressin may have been caused by development of hypokalemia and hypercalcemia in the cosmonauts, and decrease in cellular potassium in the outer renal medulla (this effect was observed in experiments on rats after flights on biosatellites). We established that, in addition to cAMP, cGMP and inositol trisphosphate participate in cellular reactions to vasopressin. Increases in the concentration of cGMP and decrease in the formation of inositol trisphosphate in the presence of neomycin increase the hydro-osmotic effect of vasopressin. We hypothesize that modulation of the effect of vasopressin in cosmonauts is due to change in the functional state of their kidneys.

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Reversible inactivation of water and sodium transport systems in frog urinary bladder and skin in the presence of detergents.

Detergents (Triton X-100, dodecyl sulphate, saponin) added in concentrations of 0.1-10 mg/ml to solution at the outer frog skin surface reversibly reduced potential difference (PD) and short-circuit current (Isc); when added at the inner surface. Triton X-100 initially induced a short increase in the PD and Isc followed by a pronounced decrease similarly as after the application of any of the detergents used. When added to either serosal or mucosal surface of frog urinary bladder, the detergents reversibly abolished the reactivity to vasopressin. Triton X-100 blocked foskolin and cAMP-induced effects on membrane water permeability. The results suggest that hydrophobic elements of membrane play a crucial role in the regulation of membrane permeability for ions and water and of the responsiveness of the cells to vasopressin. Differences in sensitivity to detergents could be observed between the apical and the basolateral cell membrane.

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Cisplatin: nephrotoxic action in vertebrates and its prevention.

1. The kidney of frog and black sculpin appeared to be much less sensitive to the toxic action of CP in comparison with rat and pigeon. 2. The impairment of renal function after CP administration resulted in increased serum urea in rat, uric acid in pigeon and magnesium in black sculpin. 3. Kidney swelling is important feature of CP nephrotoxicity in rat and pigeon but not in frog and fish. 4. Pretreatment with choline chloride, PAH, furosemide and ethacrynic acid reduced the nephrotoxic action of CP in rat but did not prevent the accumulation of platinum in renal tissue which appeared to be a function of the dose injected to investigated animals.

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Water and sodium transport: effects of calcium channel blocker and calmodulin antagonists on the apical and basolateral membranes of amphibian epithelia.

Ca2+ channel blocker (sensit) and calmodulin antagonists (thioridazine, perphenazine, oxyprothepine) applied to the mucosal side of frog urinary bladder, weakened the response of epithelial cells to vasopressin. Thioridazine (2.7 X 10(-5) mol X l-1) and sensit (1.7 X 10(-4) mol X l-1) applied to the serosal side rapidly increased the permeability of the epithelia for sodium and potassium ions along the concentration gradient (from serosa to mucosa). The same concentrations of these blockers when applied to the mucosal side of frog urinary bladder selectively decreased vasopressin stimulated water permeability and did not influence ionic permeability. Both thioridazine and sensit decreased the short-circuit current across frog skin. The results show that the Ca2+ channel blocker and the calmodulin antagonists tested influenced water and ionic transport across the epithelial cell membranes, and had different effects upon the apical and the basolateral cell membranes.

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The influence of furosemide and Co2+ on electrolyte and water transport in newt distal tubule and frog skin.

The technique of stationary microperfusion of the early distal tubule used in experiments on male newts (Triturus vulgaris) revealed the intratubular effect of CoCl2 and furosemide on the ion transport. CoCl2 in concentration 5 X 10(-4) M increased Na and Cl reabsorption, reduced Ca, Mg and K reabsorption, and increased (TFexp/TFo)in from 1.14 +/- 0.04 to 1.68 +/- 0.27 (p less than 0.001). CoCl2 in concentration 5 X 10(-5) M enhanced Na and Cl reabsorption, without affecting transport of other ions. 6 X 10(-4) M furosemide decreased reabsorption of water, Na, Cl, Ca and Mg. The combined effect of Co2+ and furosemide inhibited reabsorption of Mg and Ca to a greater extent, but stimulated Na reabsorption. Experiments on frog skin showed that being added to the apical membrane of cells, Co2+ stimulates short circuit current and potential differences, whereas furosemide reducing Cl absorption induces only hyperpolarization. Experimental findings allow to assume that Co2+ on the outer surface of the apical membrane of the distal tubule cells blocks the selective Ca and Mg channels and activates Na channels.

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Cobalt-dependent stimulation of sodium transport in the amphibian skin and nephron.

One to ten millimolar CoCl2, when applied to the outer surface of the apical membrane of the frog skin (Rana temporaria), reversibly increased the potential differences and short-circuit current. These observations suggest that Co2+ may control the gating system of the sodium channel. In the kidney of the newt (Triturus vulgaris), proximal reabsorption is increased under the influence of 0.5 mM CoCl2 injected into the lumen. When CoCl2 (0.5 mM) was injected into the lumen of the distal tubule of the newt kidney, Na+ and Cl- reabsorption was stimulated simultaneously Ca2+ transport was inhibited. The data obtained suggested that Co2+ may affect the state of the sodium and calcium channels of nonexcitable membranes of amphibia, and thus may be involved in the regulation of the function of the renal tubules.

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Specific vacuolation of frog urinary bladder granular cell after ADH stimulation of water transport.

The present study deals with an analysis of specific traits of cell vacuolation induced by water flow and ADH. During incubation of frog urinary bladders in Ringer's solution diluted 2-fold, the water content of the bladder wall increased by an average of 19%. In case of ADH-stimulated water flow the water content increased by an average of 15.7%. Cell swelling induced by hypotonic conditions on the serosal side resulted in a drastic decrease of the response to the hydroosmotic action of ADH. Electron microscopy revealed significant differences between cells hydrated in the above conditions. Two-fold hypotonicity of the serosal solution caused a slight swelling of all types of cells accompanied by a narrowing of intercellular spaces. With ADH stimulation of water transport (at maximal water movement) granular cells were characterized by the presence of irregularly shaped giant vacuoles with processes. The limiting membranes of the vacuoles were closely connected with microtubules and microfilaments. The electron microscopic study of these cells by the freeze-substitution method revealed, in addition to giant vacuoles, a highly complex system of microtubules 35-40 nm in diameter. A morphological similarity was observed between the vacuolar systems of these granular cells and the contractile vacuole complex of protozoans. Possible mechanisms for the participation of giant vacuoles, electron-dense canaliculi, microtubules and microfilaments in transcellular water flow across epithelium are discussed.

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Fluid-electrolyte metabolism and renal function of white rats in experiments aboard Cosmos biosatellites.

Rat experiments on the Cosmos biosatellites demonstrated that the percentage of renal excretion of consumed water after flight was lower than after synchronous experiment. This can be attributed not only to water retention but also to a different level of extrarenal losses postflight. Weightless rats showed increased sodium excretion after water load tests and increased potassium excretion after potassium load tests. The sodium, potassium, and calcium balance was positive after weightlessness. Analysis of the electrolyte composition of different kidney zones revealed a decreased potassium content in the medulla, which is considered to be one of the causes of changed renal iono- and osmoregulatory function in weightlessness. The normalizing effect of artificial gravity on the natri- and kaliuretic renal function was demonstrated.

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Volume and ion regulating renal functions in the big gerbil (Rhombomys opimus L.) and the water vole (Arvicola terrestris L.).

1. After iso-osmotic salt loading (1% NaCl, 1.25% KCl, 0.75% MgCl2 solutions, each load making up 5% body weight) the water voles excreted 66.2% sodium, 84.4% potassium, 18.8% magnesium over a 4 hr period. The big gerbil excreted 20%, 58.9% and 7.1% respectively over the same period. The volume of the water excreted was greater in the case of the water vole. 2. There were no considerable changes in plasma ion concentration in rodents of the species studied after salt loading. 3. The gerbils and water voles had no significant changes in the renal cortex electrolyte concentrations as a result of isotonic salt loads. The highest sodium cortico-papillar gradient was found in the gerbils when experimenting with the isotonic NaCl loading. It was somewhat lower with the KCl load, and significantly lower with water and MgCl2 loads. 4. Under the same experimental conditions, no major changes in the papilla sodium concentration were found in the water voles. 5. The concentrations of potassium, calcium and magnesium were practically alike in all zones of the renal tissue of both rodent species, ion loads producing no effect. 6. The comparison of the renal volume and ion regulating function in rodents with different urine osmotic concentration systems proves the independent existence of renal functions. The greater rate of renal fluid and ion excretion in the water voles is coupled with less specific ion regulation.

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