AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 2 735-H739, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Sodium-independent inward chloride pumping in rat cardiac ventricular cells

A. R. Chipperfield, J. P. Davis and A. A. Harper
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Dundee, United Kingdom.

The intracellular Cl concentration ([Cl]i) in rat cardiac ventricular muscle, measured with double-barreled microelectrodes in vitro, was 21.3 +/- 1.5 (SD) mM [number of observations (n) = 46]. With the Na-K-Cl cotransport inhibitor bumetanide (10 microM), it fell to 13.4 +/- 1.4 mM (n = 27), and with 1 mM acetazolamide, it fell further, to 7.2 +/- 1.5 mM (n = 5), close to equilibrium with the membrane potential. In the absence of Na, [Cl]i was 15.9 +/- 1.4 mM (n = 8), and with 1 mM acetazolamide, it fell to 6.5 +/- 0.6 mM (n = 4), again close to equilibrium. The bumetanide- and Na-insensitive components of inward Cl pumping were inhibited by chlorothiazide and ethacrynic acid but were unaffected by the Na-Cl cotransport inhibitor metolazone. There was inhibition of Na-K-Cl cotransport by chlorothiazide = acetazolamide > metolazone. The anion exchange inhibitor 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid and HCO3 had no effect on [Cl]i in any condition. Thus Cl accumulation in the rat ventricle is fully accounted for by two systems, namely, Na-K-Cl cotransport and an Na-independent, possibly primary active, process.

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