A Model of Human Small Intestinal Absorptive Cells. 1. Transport Barrier
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Pharmaceutical Research
- Vol. 08 (2), 210-216
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015844104539
Abstract
The Caco-2 cell culture model of human small intestinal absorptive cells was used to investigate transepithelial transport. Transport of permeability markers such as mannitol demonstrated that Caco-2 monolayers became less permeable with increasing age in culture. Cells were routinely used for transport studies between day 18 and day 32. A transport index was determined for each compound by calculating the ratio of transport of the molecules under investigation to transport of an internal standard such as the permeability marker mannitol. Comparison of transport rates at 4 and 37°C was a simple approach for differentiating primary transport mechanisms (passive paracellular, passive transcellular, or transporter-mediated) but must be coupled with additional experimental manipulations for definitive determination of transport pathways. Compounds predicted to undergo predominantly paracellular transport (mannitol, FITC, PEG-900, and PEG-4000), transporter-mediated transcellular transport (glucose, biotin, spermidine, oralanine), or lipophilic transcellular transport (alprenolol, propranolol, clonidine, or diazepam) showed differential effects of temperature on rates of transport as well as the transport index.Keywords
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