Glass electrode measurement of net Na+ and K+ fluxes in erythrocytes of the spontaneously hypertensive rat
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
- Vol. 55 (6), 1302-1310
- https://doi.org/10.1139/y77-175
Abstract
The exchange of Na+ and K+ in rat red cells at 40% hematocrit incubated in a physiological salt solution containing 1 mM ouabain was monitored with ion-specific glass electrodes. Because this system measures a change in the activity of an ion as a logarithmic function of its preexisting level, Δ[K+]0 is more accurately measured than Δ[Na+]0; within this limitation, the downhill ion movements were close to 1:1 over the temperature span from 37 to 3 °C. These transmembrane movements are reasonably well expressed in terms of first-order kinetics and an Arrhenius plot constructed for K+ as the accurate indicator of the exchange yields an activation energy of 12 kcal/mol. A well-defined reversal of the usual direct relation of temperature to exchange rate was observed between 6 and 3 °C. The net ion movements were distinctly faster at low temperature in cells from rats with spontaneous hypertension (SHR-Okamoto) than in cells from matched controls (Woodlyn and WKY).This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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