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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 41, 657-668, Copyright © 1958 by The Rockefeller University Press

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ACTIVE SODIUM TRANSPORT BY THE ISOLATED TOAD BLADDER

Alexander Leaf 1, John Anderson 1, and Lot B. Page 1

1 From the Isotope Department, Zoophysiology Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; the Departments of Medicine of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, Boston; and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Studies were made of the active ion transport by the isolated urinary bladder of the European toad, Bufo bufo, and the large American toad, Bufo marinus. The urinary bladder of the toad is a thin membrane consisting of a single layer of mucosal cells supported on a small amount of connective tissue.

The bladder exhibits a characteristic transmembrane potential with the serosal surface electrically positive to the mucosal surface. Active sodium transport was demonstrated by the isolated bladder under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Aerobically the mean net sodium flux across the bladder wall measured with radioactive isotopes, Na24 and Na22, just equalled the simultaneous short-circuit current in 42 periods each of 1 hour's duration. The electrical phenomenon exhibited by the isolated membrane was thus quantitatively accounted for solely by active transport of sodium. Anaerobically the mean net sodium flux was found to be slightly less than the short-circuit current in 21 periods of observation. The cause of this discrepancy is not known.

The short-circuit current of the isolated toad bladder was regularly stimulated with pure oxytocin and vasopressin when applied to the serosal surface under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Adrenaline failed to stimulate the short-circuit current of the toad bladder.

Submitted on September 5, 1957


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