Amiloride Inhibits the Vasopressin-induced Increase in Epithelial Water Permeability

Overview

Journal Pflugers Arch

Specialty Physiology

Date 1990 Oct 11

PMID 1964723

Authors

A Grosso

E J Cragoe Jr

R C DESOUSA

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Abstract

The vasopressin (VP)-induced increase in water permeability in high-resistance, amphibian epithelia is not altered by the abolition of net Na+ flux caused by amiloride added to the apical bathing medium. In this work we looked at the effects on water transport of amiloride added to the serosal medium at a concentration (10(-3) M) known to inhibit Na+/H+ exchange. In urinary bladders of Bufo marinus, amiloride partially blocked the hydrosmotic response to VP. A similar inhibition was found with cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate (cAMP) or serosal hypertonicity. We hypothesized that this effect of amiloride could be due to an inhibition of Na+/H+ and/or Na+/Ca2+ antiporters present in the epithelial basolateral membrane and looked at the effects of the diuretic in Na(+)-free media. A similar degree of inhibition of water flow was still found, thus showing that amiloride acts on a cell target other than the antiporters. In toad skin, amiloride did not inhibit the hydrosmotic response to VP and to isoproterenol; however the response to high K+ was significantly reduced. Among the amiloride cell targets described so far, adenylate cyclase and protein kinase A appear to be the best candidates to explain the inhibition of the hydrosmotic response reported here. Direct measurements of intracellular cAMP are needed however to substantiate this hypothesis.

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