Glucose carriers at maternal and fetal sides of the trophoblast in guinea pig placenta
- 31 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology
- Vol. 237 (5), C205-C212
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.1979.237.5.c205
Abstract
Trophoblast uptake and unidirectional influx of 3H-labeled hexoses were measured relative to L-[14C]glucose (extracellular marker) using a single-circulation, paired-tracer dilution technique. Successive runs were performed in the fetal and maternal circulations of isolated dually perfused guinea pig placentas, obtained from anesthetized dams and perfused for 60--140 min. The leakiness, estimated from the percentage of the L-glucose dose that crossed the trophoblast, varied (25 +/- 3% (SE), n = 28). On the injection side the maximal sugar uptake (Umax) was measured from early venous concentration ratios, since rapid tracer backflux occurred: Umax = (1 -- 3H/14C) x 100. Umax was independent of the leakiness. In all 14 placentas studied, stereospecific saturable transport of D-glucose was demonstrated at fetal (Umax = 56 +/- 4% (SE), n = 14) and maternal (62 +/- 1% (SE), n = 14) surfaces. The mean unidirectional influxes were 3.3 and 3.5 mumol.min-1.g-1, respectively. Uptakes were inhibited by phloretin and less effectively by phlorizin. D-glucose, 3-O-methylglucose, D-mannose and D-galactose had similar Umax values, about four times that of D-fructose. Tracer backflux and transplacental flux were also equal from both sides. It is concluded that similar hexose carriers, which resemble the human erythrocyte carrier, exist at the membrane on both sides of the trophoblast. The nondestructive technique employed characterizes carriers and receptors at the blood side of cells and could be applied to the placenta or other organs in the intact animal.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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