Microelectrode study of K+ accumulation by tight epithelia: I. Baseline values of split frog skin and toad urinary bladder

The Journal of Membrane Biology
J DeLong, M M Civan

Abstract

Toad bladder and split frog skin were impaled with fine-tipped single- and double-barrelled K+-selective microelectrodes. In order to circumvent membrane damage induced by impaling toad bladder, a null point method was developed, involving elevations of mucosal potassium concentration. The results suggest that intracellular potassium activity of short-circuited toad bladder is approximately 82 mM, twice as large as earlier estimates. Far more stable and rigorously defined intracellular measurements were recorded from short-circuited split frog skins. The intracellular positions of the micropipette and microelectrode tips were verified by transient hyperpolarizations of the membrane potential with mucosal amiloride or by transient depolarizations with serosal barium or strophanthidin. Simultaneous impalement of distant cells with separate micropipettes demonstrated that both the baseline membrane potentials and the responses to depolarizing agents were similar, further documenting that frog skin is a functional syncytium. Measurements with double-barrelled microelectrodes and simultaneous single-barrelled microelectrodes and reference micropipettes suggest that the intracellular potassium activity is about 104 mM, lower than pre...Continue Reading

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