Extracellular space in some isolated tissues
- 1 May 1974
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 239 (1), 31-49
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1974.sp010554
Abstract
1. The spaces occupied by isotopically labelled inulin, polyethylene glycol, mol. wt. 4000 (PEG 4000), polyethylene glycol, mol. wt. 1000 (PEG 1000) and sucrose in metabolizing mammalian kidney and liver slices and in toad bladder epithelial cell preparations incubated in vitro have been examined.2. In slices of mammalian tissue, and in homogenized liver, it proved impossible to extract inulin completely from tissue which had been dried. However, inulin was recovered as completely from both dried and undried toad bladder epithelial cells scraped from hemibladders incubated in vitro.3. PEG 4000 occupied a space in all preparations similar to that from which inulin was extracted in dried tissue.4. PEG 1000 and sucrose entered cellular water in mammalian slices, but PEG 1000 occupied a similar space to inulin in toad bladder epithelial cell preparations.6. It is concluded that inulin enters cellular water in mammalian slices from which after drying of the slices it cannot be extracted. It thus rather fortuitously provides a measure of extracellular water under these conditions. In preparations of toad bladder epithelial cells inulin seems to be a satisfactory extracellular marker. PEG 4000, which did not appear to enter cellular water also allows a reasonable estimate of extracellular water. PEG 1000 is a suitable extracellular marker for toad bladder epithelial cell preparations but not for mammalian slices. Sucrose entered cellular water in both slices and toad bladder epithelial cells and is not a satisfactory extracellular marker in these tissues.Keywords
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