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In a systematic investigation the course of the activities of the Na-K activated ATPase and the Mg ATPase enzyme systems in rat liver and kidney were studied. In the liver the activities of both enzyme systems were on a significantly higher level (22 and 15% resp.) during the evening hours (4:00 p. m. to 2:00 a. m.). In the kidney a significantly lower level (13%) of Na-K ATPase activity was found during the night (10:00 p. m. to 8:00 a. m.), while Mg ATPase activity did not vary significantly. The periods of raised enzyme activity in liver and in kidney did not coincide. The results are discussed in relation to literature data on diurnal variations of metabolic activities in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The technique and evaluation of the split oil drop method of Gertz was reexamined in rats with a view to defining the correct dimension in which the results should be expressed so that the point of reference for reabsorptive capacity thus obtained be uninfluenced by the geometry of the tubule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A plasma membrane enriched fraction (PMF) from rat kidney homogenates with a high specific activity of a Mg, Na and K activated ATPase was investigated. For comparison ATPase activity was measured also in the microsomal fraction. Adrenalectomy resulted in an increase of specific activities of Mg-, MgNaK- and NaK-ATPase in the PMF and a decrease of specific activities in the microsomal fraction. The increase of enzyme activities in the PMF has been demonstrated with three different techniques of ATPase preparation: with NaJ- or DOC-treatment and dialysis. The changes were more prominent when the adrenalectomized rats received tap water instead of saline as drinking fluid and thus were Na deprived. Kinetic studies revealed similar K values for Na, K and MgATP in control and adrenalectomized rats. V values, however, increased about two-fold in the adrenalectomized animals. There was no difference in the allosteric activitation of the NaK-ATPase in both animal groups as indicated by equal ' n' values. The increase in ATPase activity could be prevented by substitution with daldosterone plus dexamethasone although the plasma concentration of Na remained unaltered low because of Na deprivation. Cortisone exerted no influence on ATPase activity in adrenalectomized rats. From the data presented it is inferred that neither the activity of the ATPase enzyme system of the PMF nor that of the microsomal fraction is directly regulated by aldosterone. It is concluded that the changes observed are due to an adaptation to altered renal Na reabsorption which in turn is regulated by corticosteroids. This adaptive process is different in different subcellular fractions of rat tissue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fraction enriched with plasma cell membranes (PMF) was isolated from rat kidney homogenate by differential centrifugation. Before NaJ treatment electron micrographs of the preparation showed a membraneous fraction with only a small contamination of mitochondria. After treatment with NaJ the residual PMF exhibited a low microsomal glucose 6-phosphatase activity. Marker enzymes of other subcellular fractions were not detected. The NaJ extracted PMF revealed a high specific activity of ATPase, 91% of which was stimulated by Na and K. The MgNaK-ATPase was characterized by Michaelis Menten kinetics. In contrast, Hill coefficients (' n') of NaK-ATPase for the activation by Na, K and Mg-ATP were greater than one. Experiments with various nucleotide tri-, di- and monophosphates revealed a high substrate specificity of the NaK-ATPase. The pH optimum was in the range of 7.2. SH-reagents and ouabain depressed the Na and K stimulated enzyme activity. PMF isolated from rat kidneys exhibited an acylphosphatase and a nitrophenylphosphatase activity, both of which were stimulated by K. Furthermore 5′-nucleotidase and leucine aminopeptidase activities were present in the fraction.-Thus, NaK-ATPase of the PMF revealed the typical properties of the NaK-ATPase demonstrated in the microsomal preparations, which has been referred to by Skou (1965) as the enzymatic basis of active cation transport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cells from guinea pig kidney cortex slices, which have been loaded with Na and caused to lose K, by leaching at 0.6° C for 2.5 hours, extrude Na with Cl upon rewarming to 25° C in a medium without K. A subsequent rise in the K concentration in the bath at 25° C induces further net Na extrusion, 1 Na being extruded in exchange for 1 K that is taken up. When the leached tissue is rewarmed to 25°C in the presence of K in the bathing fluid (2 or 16 mM), some Na is extruded accompanied with Cl (by a mechanism that is inhibited by ethacrynic acid) and some Na is extruded maintanining a 1:1 ratio with the K that is taken up, (this system being inhibited by ouabain). Thus two modes of Na extrusion are observed, mode A that is accompanied by net Cl efflux, and that is inhibited by 2 mM ethacrynic acid, but not by 1 or 10 mM ouabain and mode B in which one K is taken up for each Na extruded. Mode B is inhibited by 1 mM ouabain and not by ethacrynic acid. DNP and anoxia inhibit both modes A and B. Insufficient doses of ouabain do not explain the refractoriness of mode A to ouabain. Ouabain and ethacrynic acid are known inhibitors of the Na−K-ATPase at much lower doses. It is concluded that both modes may originate in different Na pumps which may have different energy sources. Pump A should be efficient in the volume regulation of the cell. According to experimental procedure, both modes of Na extrusion appear of comparable magnitude. In the steady-state their relative role may be different. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The influence of aldosterone in vivo on cytochromes in rat kidney mitochondria is studied, comparing rats in normal state, adrenalectomized state, and adrenalectomized rats 2 hours after administration of adlosterone (7.5 μg per 100 g rat as single dose plus infusion of 0.125 μg per hour and 100 g rat). No significant changes between these states are observed of either cytochrome b, cytochrome c, or cytochrome c content. Cytochrome a, as estimated from the 605 mμ band of the difference spectrum (reduced vs. oxidized), decreases from 508±51 nanomoles per g protein ( n=12) in the controls to 273±65 ( n=12) nanomoles per g protein in the adrenalectomized state. After administration of aldosterone to adrenalectomized rats the concentration of cytochrome a increased to 464±38 nanomoles per g protein ( n=12). The difference spectrum (anaerob vs aerob+Antimycin A) shows that the absorbancy maximum at 444 mμ (more specific for cytochrome a) is also considerably decreased after adrenalectomy, and increased after administration of aldosterone to adrenalectomized rats. Hence the contents of both compounds of cytochrome oxidase, cytochrome a and cytochrome a, appear to be controlled by aldosterone. The molar ratio of cytochrome c to cytochrome a is 1.1 in the controls, 1.8 after adrenalectomy, and 1.1 after administration of aldosterone to adrenalectomized rats. Possible relations of this effect to the previously observed increase of tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme activities under aldosterone are discussed. The 46% decrease of the cytochrome a content in mitochondria from the whole kidney of adrenalectomized rats, which is restored to the normal level in response to aldosterone, is difficult to reconcile with the concept that the hormone acts on distal tubules only, as these constitute only about 10% of the material used. Therefore, the present result is considered to support the concept that the hormone acts on both distal and proximal tubules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Transtubular absorption of Na and Cl, and intracellular ion concentrations were evaluated in toad kidneys perfused with solutions containing K and without K, and in the presence of 1 mM Ouabain and 1 mM Ethacrynic acid. The following values were obtained with 8.5 mM K: Transtubular absorption of Na and Cl∼68% (percent of filtered load); cell content 294 μmole Na, 433 μmole K, 100 μmole Cl/g solids. Lack of K in the perfusate diminished transtubular absorption to ∼25% and the cells gain 244 μmole Na/g solids, and lose an equimolecular quantity of K. The process is reversible upon raising the K concentration in the perfusate. Ouabain inhibits transtubular absorption to ∼6%; the cells lose about 110 μmole K/g solids, but cellular Na is maintained at the control levels. Ethacrynic acid inhibits transtubular absorption to ∼3%; the cells approximately double their Na and Cl content, but their K is maintained at the control levels. These observations cannot be explained exclusively in terms of an effect on the distal tubule. Probably proximal as well as distal tubules are involved. A single Na pump seems insufficient to account for all experimental findings. The existence of two separate pumps is therefore proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At different times after injection into the renal artery ofI-albumin, the distribution of the tracer in kidneys of the rabbit and the dog was illustrated by a series of autoradiograms. In order to determine the mean circulation time for albumin in the kidney, the radioactivity over the kidney was simultaneously registered by external monitoring. A short mean circulation time was measured for albumin (plasma) passing cortex, and a longer one for that fraction of the albumin that passed through medulla, papillae, and capsule. The investigation rendered probable that the mean circulation time for blood through the kidney determined by the external technique applies to blood passing cortex. The circulation times for blood through medulla, papillae, and capsule are not included in the calculation of the mean circulation time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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