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Effect of hypotonicity on cyclic adenosine monophosphate formation and action in vasopressin target cells.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  164579     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
We have shown previously that overhydration of toads renders their urinary bladders less responsive to the antidiuretic action of vasopressin (AVP). The present study investigates the relationship between osmotic swelling of vasopressin target cells and their sensitivity to AVP and dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate (db-cAMP). Conditions which engender osmotic swelling of toad bladder epithelial cells, such as immersing bladders on both surfaces in hypotonic Ringer's fluid or subjecting them to a net mucosal-to-serosal volume flux, markedly inhibited the effectiveness of db-cAMP in raising bladder permeability to water. This inhibitory phenomenon was seen both with serosal and mucosal applications of the nucleotide. Examination of isolated epithelial cells by phase contrast microscopy showed them to behave as osmometers, doubling their volume as the effective osmolality of the incubation medium was halved. AVP was found to increase the total content of cAMP about 3.5-fold both in the swollen and the normal cells, so that the actual concentration of cAMP may have diminished as the cell volume increased. Consistent with this suggestion was the observation that increasing exogenous db-cAMP abolished, in part, the inhibitory effects of hypotonicity. These observations indicate that homeostasis of body fluids in the toad depends in part upon the osmotic regulation of anti-diuretic homone action, and that intracellular cAMP may participate in coupling changes in cell volume to the altered state of responsiveness of the vasopressin target cell.
Authors:
P Eggena; J Christakis; L Deppisch
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Kidney international     Volume:  7     ISSN:  0085-2538     ISO Abbreviation:  Kidney Int.     Publication Date:  1975 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1975-07-03     Completed Date:  1975-07-03     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0323470     Medline TA:  Kidney Int     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  161-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Body Fluids / metabolism*
Bufo marinus
Cell Membrane Permeability / drug effects
Cyclic AMP / analysis,  metabolism*
Female
Homeostasis
Hypotonic Solutions
Immersion
Microscopy, Phase-Contrast
Osmolar Concentration
Urinary Bladder / analysis,  cytology,  drug effects*
Vasopressins / pharmacology*
Water-Electrolyte Balance
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Hypotonic Solutions; 11000-17-2/Vasopressins; 60-92-4/Cyclic AMP

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