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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 277: L1232-L1238, 1999;
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Vol. 277, Issue 6, L1232-L1238, December 1999

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Alveolar sodium and liquid transport in mice

Philippe Icard and Georges Saumon

Service de Chirurgie Thoracique et Cardiovasculaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, 14000 Caen; and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 82, Faculté Xavier Bichat, 75018 Paris, France

We have developed a simple isolated lung preparation for measurement of liquid and solute fluxes across mouse alveolar epithelium. Liquid instilled into air spaces was absorbed at the rate (Jw) of 3.7 ± 0.32 ml · h-1 · g dry lung wt-1. Jw was significantly depressed by ouabain (P < 0.001) and amiloride (P < 0.001). Omission of glucose from the instillate or addition of the Na+-glucose cotransport inhibitor phloridzin did not affect Jw. However, the low epithelial lining fluid glucose concentration (one-third that of plasma), the larger-than-mannitol permeability of methyl-alpha -D-glucopyranoside, and the presence of Na+-glucose cotransporter SGLT1 mRNA in mouse lung tissue suggest that there is a Na+-glucose cotransporter in the mouse alveolar-airway barrier. Isoproterenol stimulated Jw (6.5 ± 0.45 ml · h-1 · g dry lung wt-1; P < 0.001), and this effect was blocked by amiloride, benzamil, ouabain, and the specific beta 2-adrenergic antagonist ICI-118551 but not by atenolol. Similar stimulation was obtained with terbutaline (6.4 ± 0.46 ml · h-1 · g dry lung wt-1). Na+ unidirectional fluxes out of air spaces varied in agreement with Jw changes. Thus alveolar liquid absorption in mice follows Na+ transport via the amiloride-sensitive pathway, with little contribution from Na+-glucose cotransport, and is stimulated by beta 2-adrenergic agonists.

glucose transport; pulmonary alveoli; pulmonary edema


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